The changes in the weeks leading up to season 51 are part of a well-established pattern in the show's long history.

Matt Damon is currently hard at work filming The Odyssey, the next film from Christopher Nolan, but 12 years ago, he starred in a twisty sci-fi film that has resurrected on streaming charts.

12 years later, Matt Damon's forgotten Snowpiercer replacement resurfaces on streaming charts.

South Park, which is in its 27th year, largely left the political conversation years ago, but it has suddenly zipped back with a ferociousness that late-night and SNL can’t match.