That night, in the middle of a thunderstorm, a man claiming to be an older version of Stan appears at the Marsh family's door.
Stan is appalled at the way these parents have all deceived their kids and he and Butters decide to look in the phone book to find a place to run away to.
Meanwhile, the Parental Revenge Agency does its job at Butters' house as Cartman and a group of Hispanic child workers smear feces all over the living room and bedroom of the Stotch household.
Upon returning home, Chris and Linda actually acknowledge that they deserve it for lying and finally tell the truth about the "future self" thing and apologize to Butters, to Stan's shock.
As it turns out, the man is Cartman's future self and due to his past self's vow almost immediately transforms into a dirty, morbidly obese mechanic.
In the DVD commentary, Parker and Stone stated that they were inspired to do the episode after seeing an advertisement by The Partnership For A Drug-Free America which linked marijuana use to terrorism.
Parker stated that they had originally intended for the episode to include a spoof of the commercial but decided against it when they could not think of anything more ridiculous than saying, "If you smoke pot, you become a terrorist".
"My Future Self 'n' Me", along with the sixteen other episodes from South Park's sixth season, were released on a three-disc DVD set in the United States on October 11, 2005.