Kenny Dies/Trivia

Trivia

 * This episode marks the first time when Kenny's death was taken seriously by the main characters. With all of his deaths before that, the others would merely express surprise, then forget about it. While it is taken more seriously than usual on other rare occasions (such as in "The Ring" or "Cartman's Mom is Still a Dirty Slut"), it never upsets the boys as much as in this episode.
 * This was one of the few times where Kenny's death was done off-camera, where as normally Kenny's death would be a visual gag for the audience to see.
 * This episode had been initially intended to kill Kenny off for good because Trey and Matt grew tired of killing him off in every episode for the sake of humor. In addition, Kenny's repeated deaths made it tough to develop Kenny's personality, since he was really just a "prop" character. Kenny's subsequent absence from season six also allowed minor character Butters Stotch to rise as a major character on the show.
 * In the episode audio commentary, it was mentioned that Kyle was supposed to be "killed off" in the episode, due to the fact that he and Stan share similar personalities (but since Kenny was killed off for a season instead, Kyle and Stan gain differences in later seasons).
 * In this episode -as well as a few notable others- there is an Orgazmo poster on the back of Cartman's door.
 * This is one of the episodes where we hear Cartman sing, he sings "In the Heat of the Moment" by Asia in the court.