10 Times Chappelle's Show Predicted The Future

It’s hard to believe that it’s been 12 years since Chappelle’s Show first aired. With its crazy cast of characters and skits, including Prince and his love of basketball and pancakes, Chappelle’s Show instantly became one of the most quotable shows of all time.

The commentary was so light-years ahead of its time that it blessed us with some psychic-like insight.

As Dave Chappelle continues to make a strong comeback, let us take a look back at the 10 times Chappelle’s Show predicted the future.

Wu-Tang Clan And Their Unique Marketing Techniques

In this hilarious skit, the RZA, the GZA and the Wu-Tang Clan brought us the illest advertisement for stocks and bonds the world has ever seen. We live in a world of CREAM (Cash Rules Everything Around Me), so you had to get at Wu-Tang Financial so you could diversify that weak a** portfolio.

In 2014, the members of the Wu-Tang Clan came up with a real marketing technique that would ensure the longevity of their music and keep cash flowing:

Wu-Tang is releasing a single $5 million copy of their new album, Once Upon a Time in Shaolin with an 88-year ban on commercialization rights. If you have $5 million and mad respect for the Wu, you could be the sole owner of the album with one major catch: You cannot release the album for profit until 2103.

People Losing Weight On A Daily Diet Of Fast Food

“Ever wonder what would happen if a Black dude ate nothing but fast food for 30 days?” This is the question posed and answered by Chappelle’s parody of the hit documentary, Super Size Me.

In “Maximize Me,” Chappelle dons an outrageous fat suit equipped with zero f**ks to be given. A worried doctor warns Chappelle of the risk before embarking on his fast-food journey, and Chappelle scoffs back, “I live in the hood, I could die every day. I give this movie permission to kill me, cookies, pies, cakes. Whatever food you tryin’ to kill me with, bring it on!”

So begins a montage of Chappelle eating nonstop “WacArnolds.” At the end of the month, Chappelle returns to his doctor and…he’s lost almost 100 lbs.

Now as implausible as this seems, a science teacher from Iowa lost a whopping 56 pounds, lowered his cholesterol, and took 21 inches off his waist eating a diet that only consisted of McDonald’s food.

Before you dip through the Mickey Dee’s drive-through lane for a 20-piece nugget and a milkshake, be warned that this diet is not recommended for everybody. The man followed a strict diet of 2,000 calories a day with the recommended daily allowance for carbs, sugar, fat, and protein.

Are Dolphins Racist?

In a Nightline parody,  Yasiin Bey (f.k.a. Mos Def) is interviewed about racist Hollywood animals. In this clip, he remembers Flipper, or “James the N***** Hating Dolphin,” from back in the day. A black-and-white flashback then features a large dolphin scaring a group of Black people out of a public pool.

While James the bigoted dolphin may be long gone, another racist Dolphin would emerge to take his place in real life.

In April 2013, Richie Incognito, offensive guard for the Miami Dolphins, sent a slew of hate-filled emails and text messages to his Black teammate Jonathan Martin. In an angry voicemail, Incognito said this about his former teammate:

“Hey, wassup, you half n—– piece of s—. I saw you on Twitter, you been training 10 weeks. [I want to] s— in your f—ing mouth. [I’m going to] slap your f—ing mouth. [I’m going to] slap your real mother across the face. F— you, you’re still a rookie. I’ll kill you.”

Chappelle tried to warn us…

The Beginning Of Intervention

“Is this the 5 o’clock free crack giveaway?” says Tyrone Biggums as he bursts through the door of an intervention to get him off of drugs. Biggums is hopelessly addicted to crack and is pretty much willing to do whatever it takes to get some.

Biggums is tireless, eager, and resourceful. He finds a way to escape his intervention and returns to his drug-addled adventures. This comedic take on such a dramatic situation was rarely seen on TV at that time.

But somehow the writers of Chappelle’s Show magically predicted that this type of show would be a hit.

Two years after Tyrone Biggums’ intervention on the sketch comedy show, A&E premiered a program called, Intervention.

Love Contracts

In this sketch from February 2004, Chappelle is seen romancing Rashida Jones. Before they seal that deal, he whips out a love contract, which spells out the terms of their lovemaking and allows Rashida to provide proof of her consent for sex…and other naughty Fifty Shades of Grey-ish possibilities.

While the love contract seemed like a ridiculous yet comical commentary on rape culture and disclosure, it would turn out to be the next big thing in marriages and workplace romance negotiations.

Lifestyle clauses, or love contracts as they are commonly known, have become a mainstay in Hollywood marriages. Jessica Biel has an infidelity clause in her prenup with husband, Justin Timberlake. If he cheats, she gets $500,000.

You don’t even have to be married to get your very own love contract. Cohabitation agreements are the new rage in monogamous relationships.

Energy Drinks With A Secret Ingredient

In this parody of a Red Bull commercial, Biggums gets a hold of Red Balls, an energy drink laced with crack that helps you develop superhuman strength. With it in his system, he lifts a bus to get a dime that landed underneath one of the tires.

Now this sketch is Sylvia Brown-level psychic. Earlier this year, a 72-year-old man was arrested for selling energy drinks laced with meth. Customers would go to the elderly man’s home to buy the energy drink, which cost $20 a bottle. Some even claimed they didn’t know that meth was in the drink.

And next they’ll be saying Red Bull doesn’t give you wings…

The Fight For The Right To Poop

In “Profiles in Courage,” Chappelle takes on the historical moment in 1954 when a man named Cyrus Holloway has a chance encounter with a bad roast beef sandwich and changes the lives of Black people everywhere by having a bowel movement.

The sketch takes toilet humor to the absolute next level. Cyrus is arrested while using the whites-only bathroom. The police charge in, sic dogs on him and pull out the hoses. Holloway goes to court and is charged with using a white-rest facility while suffering a severe case of “mud butt.”

Civil Rights activists arrange a toilet protest that makes national news and the case was taken to the Supreme Court where judges ruled in favor of Holloway.

Fast-forward to 2012, where in real life, beachgoers in Australia staged a toilet protest on the beach to voice their displeasure with the public restroom situation.

It’s been three years since the Australian toilet sit-in and there’s no word yet if the protest was effective.

He’s Alive–Tupac That Is

In this sketch from the “lost” third season, Chappelle decides to take on the man, the myth, and the legend of Tupac. In the short sketch featuring Questlove from the Roots, Chappelle is at the club dancing when a new Tupac song called “I Wrote This Song a Long Time Ago” comes on.

Everyone is excited until they pay attention to the lyrics, which make reference to specific events that happened long after Tupac’s death in 1996.

It has long been rumored that Tupac is alive and in hiding, and people have alleged that they’ve seen the rapper in Cuba, Haiti, and even Detroit.

Chappelle’s Show hit it right on the nose again. Tupac would eventually take the stage again–but in hologram form. Pac performed at the Coachella Music Festival in April 2012. His performance, and the fact that’s he’s released seven albums since his tragic death, prove that he truly is alive–his legacy that is.

Getting High Without Getting High

Many of Chappelle’s Show’s sketches dealt with marijuana, but Dave’s insight proves to be as funny as it is on fleek. This sketch focuses on a non-intoxicating marijuana substance called O’Dweeds, which allows you to smoke weed without getting high.

In a remarkable turn of events, in real life, a medical cannabis company has developed the first strain of marijuana that doesn’t cause intoxication or side effects.

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