Whale Whores/Trivia

Trivia.

 * The Deadliest Catch boat that appears and tries to block the whale boat is The F/V Northwestern with Captain Sig Hansen and his crew.


 * It also features the hit pop song, Poker Face, by Lady Gaga which is sung by Eric Cartman, however, he sings it differently and he skips some parts. Probably because of copyright obligations. This later inspired a release of the full song as sung by Cartman that is featured as DLC in Rock Band.


 * The aircraft in the Kamikaze scene are A6M Zeros judging by the cockpit, with the occasional B5N 'Kate' Torpedo Bomber in the background.


 * The Whale Wars crew use a model of Godzilla to scare of the Japanese, the word the Japanese yell is Gojira! which is Japanese for Godzilla.


 * The museum the boys visit along with the Emperor Akihito in Japan is most likely the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum - a museum set up in 1955 with aims of contributing to the abolition of nuclear weapons throughout the world, and of promoting world peace.


 * Japanese Prime Minister Hatoyama yelled "Nippon no Gaijin Tofu Taberuna!"means "Foreigners in Japan do not eat Tofus!" in Japanese when he lost his temper.


 * The word Japanese men frequently shout in the episode "Ikura!" means dolphin in Japanese.


 * The presentation of Japanese culture and mannerisms most likely stems from Trey Parker, who is an admitted Japanophile.


 * As this episode shows Stan's Birthday, he must be either 9 or 10 now.


 * In Chinpokomon, the Japanese, under Emperor Hirohito, wanted to avenge their defeat in World War II by perpetrating another Pearl Harbor attack (through Chinpokomon toys, no less), but here, under Emperor Akihito, they are grateful for learning that a whale and a dolphin were responsible for the bombing on Hiroshima. Stan was about to tell the truth, but Cartman reminded him that the Japanese were out to annihilate anyone responsible for that bombing.


 * Though Paul Watson is Canadian, he lacks the flapping, pac-man like head that Canadians in the series are portrayed with.


 * Surprisingly, Kenny survives the boat explosion.


 * When Emperor Akihito told Stan, Kenny and Cartman that after the nuclear bombing, some American gave them doctored photo and in the next day they ended the war. But there is still the Nagasaki bomb. Japan only ended the war with the United States ten days after the bombing.


 * When the Whale Wars intro is first shown, you can see on the side of the Sea Shepard the code: "TK-421" which is a reference to Star Wars.

Goofs

 * During the scene where Cartman, Kyle, & Kenny are playing Rock Band, when they show the TV screen, it shows a full 4-Man band, when there are only 3 people playing.


 * It shows beluga whales at the Atlanta Zoo when really the Atlanta Zoo doesn't have them, the Georgia Aquarium does.


 * The actual Whale Wars is filmed in the oceans around the Antarctic, and Deadliest Catch is filmed near the Arctic, so the to ships should never cross paths.


 * The "whale" in the doctored photo in Hiroshima is that of an Orca. It should be noted that despite Orca's being known as "Killer Whales" they are not actually whales at all, and are actually an extremely large species of dolphin. In essence, only "Dolphin" should have been blamed for the bombing, and no whales should have ever been killed.