Dead Celebrities/Trivia

Cultural References

 * Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson from The Atlantic Paranormal Society(Taps) and Ghost Hunters are called in to investigate. All of which are made to look like complete idiots.


 * Some of the ghosts that Ike sees or are waiting on the plane in Purgatory are Billy Mays, who is advertising various products, Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett, Patrick Swayze, Natasha Richardson, Dom DeLuise, Ted Kennedy, John Hughes, Walter Cronkite, Ed McMahon, Adam Goldstein (DJ AM), Arturo Gatti, Bea Arthur, Steve McNair, Ricardo Montalbán, David Carradine, Les Paul, and Oscar G. Mayer, Jr.. Most of the aforementioned deaths have occurred within 2009 alone, a trend that has alarmed the media.


 * Most of the products Mays pitches are fake, with the exception of The Big City Slider Station and Mighty Mend-It.


 * The episode also refers to The Sixth Sense when Ike tells his therapist that he sees dead celebrities, reminiscent of the quotation, "I see dead people."


 * The episode features a spiritual medium reminiscent of Tangina Barrons from the film Poltergeist. Ironically she died within a year of the episode airing.


 * The episode parodies the movie Little Miss Sunshine and the show, Toddlers & Tiaras, with the children's pageant in the last part of the episode.


 * Some of this episode could be a parody of Ghost Whisperer in which Ike takes the role of Melinda Gordon.

Goofs

 * Most of this episode is uncensored on www.southparkstudios.com but near the end of this episode when Ike says "What the fuck am I wearing? " "Kyle what the fuck is going on" and "HOLY SHIT" it is censored. This is understandable because Ike and other various children in South Park are recorded by actual children, and they usually don't have the children cuss; they usually have them say other things and bleep them out to sound as if they said a bad word. For example, you hear Ike say "What the heck?" but they censor out "heck" so it sounds like "fuck". "Shit" could sound like "sit" and "fuck" could be "fack/fak".


 * In the episode "Miss Teacher Bangs a Boy" there was no trace of a closet in Ike's room. It's possible that that Kyle's house was destroyed in Pandemic or Pandemic 2: The Startling by guinea pigs forcing them to rebuild. This could be the reason because they decided to add in the closet. Of course, the houses in South Park are constantly being upgraded over time (e.g. Stan Marsh's kitchen is more modern in Season 14 than it was in Season 1).


 * The visitor is hidden in the pageant audience with long hair.


 * If you look closely, Ike is wearing a white glove when playing in the playground outside the hospital.


 * When Billy Mays is trying to sell his products in purgatory he's seated next to Kennedy and Richardson, and behind some unknown people with no lines. At the end when they land in hell he's seated next to someone else. At the part where all the celebrities yell he is not seen.


 * In a deleted scene, viewable on the Season 13 DVD and Blu-ray, where the boys and Michael Jackson were in Forest Lawn Glendale Cemetery, the tombstone actually shows Michael Jackson died in July 25, which Michael Jackson really died in June 25. This may have been why it was a deleted scene because there was too little time to rectify the mistake (due to the frantic schedule of South Park).


 * The male doctor says that he'll let Doctor Phillips take care of it, but the woman's tag says Dr. Tangina.