Mysterion Rises/Trivia

Trivia

 * In this episode, after 1 year and 8 months of waiting, it was finally revealed that Mysterion's identity is Kenny McCormick.
 * This is the 7th time that Cartman opens his mouth very widely so that his tongue and teeth are shown. The other times were "It's Christmas in Canada", "Good Times with Weapons", Quest for Ratings", "The Death of Eric Cartman", "Cartman Sucks", and "Le Petit Tourette".
 * This is the first time Mysterion is shown laughing and smiling; this is because he thought it would be unbelievably funny to piss Cartman off if he chose to keeping calling the group "Coon and Friends".
 * Cartman admits that he'd much rather be a complete dick while continuing hurting others and plotting revenge than redeem himself to the Friends.
 * Stan's grampa had used Kenny's line, "Pull the trigger, you pussy", in the episode "Quintuplets 2000", with the intention of an FBI agent putting him out of his misery.
 * Because Kenny is Mysterion and speaks unmuffled, this is one of the few episodes where he gets censored.
 * When the McCormicks are found to have been involved in the Cthulu cult meetings, Kenny inadvertantly slips back into his normal voice, provided by Eric Stough, to say the line "What the fuck?".
 * Kenny's Mom works at the Olive Garden.
 * When Hindsight says that he is going to kill Coon and Friends, Mysterion tells him to go ahead. Kenny's bravery is the reference to the fact that he dies so often that as a result he is not afraid to die.
 * Other than Kenny, the identities of Mosquito (Clyde) and The Human Kite (Kyle) are revealed, leaving Bradley as Mint Berry Crunch.
 * Kyle is not actually revealed as The Human Kite until the next episode, but when he says "You bastards!" shortly after Kenny got killed, it would have been a safe assumption.
 * Captain Hindsight is drinking a bottle of The Makallan 12 year old single malt Scotch whiskey, a respelling of The Macallan.
 * This episode marks the second time that Kenny dies and then deliberately reappears alive later on, the first one being "The Succubus" (In earlier episodes he occasionally reappeared as a result of using stock footage, such as in "City on the Edge of Forever").
 * Interestingly, this is the first time that Kenny is intentionally killed in cold blood - previously it has always been the result of an misjudgment, freak accident, suicide or something similar.
 * When Timmy leaves Cartman's basement, some of the others gather around him, most likely helping him up the stairs.

Continuity

 * This episode is preceded by "Coon 2: Hindsight".
 * During his conversation with Captain Hindsight, Kenny mentions having seen Heaven and Hell. He was sent to Heaven and Hell during the events of "South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut", and to Heaven in "Best Friends Forever".
 * This episode shows that Kenny is aware of his abnormally frequent deaths. Previous hints at this have been seen in "Tweek vs. Craig" when he refused to go into shop class, and in "Best Friends Forever" where his will begins with "In the highly likely event of my death...."
 * This episode also confirms that nobody remembers Kenny dying a lot - this contradicts various other episodes, among which are "4th Grade", "Chef Goes Nanners" and "Cartmanland" where somebody has mentioned it offhandedly.
 * A few minor characters from older episodes reappear as members of the Cthulhu cult:
 * The two Star Trek nerds from "4th Grade"
 * Mr. Adler from "Tweek vs. Craig"
 * The four Goth Kids
 * Randy Marshes' workmate Nelson
 * While manipulating Cthulhu, Cartman destroys various places, including a Synagogue, a truck full of hippies, and San Francisco.
 * San Francisco was previously destroyed in Season 10's episode "Smug Alert".

References to Popular Culture

 * The name of this episode is a reference to the upcoming Batman movie "The Dark Knight Rises".
 * Cartman interacting with Cthulhu while on his belly, as well as the song playing while flying with Cthulhu, is a reference to Hayao Miyazaki's 1988 film "Tonari no Totoro" ("My Neighbor Totoro").
 * The scene at the beginning with the small question marks flying around the large question mark is a reference to the introduction to Batman Begins.
 * The "What Should I Do?" segment during the episode is a reference to the LeBron James commercials that aired on U.S. television around the time of this episode's release.
 * In Clyde's room, there is a headlight shaped like the Millennium falcon from the Star Wars films.
 * In Clyde's room, there is a poster with the title "Gunslave Wing", an obvious reference to the anime Mobile Suit Gundam Wing with the robot on the poster resembling Wing Zero.
 * When Kyle (The Human Kite) clicks on the newspaper listing showing '10 arrested in South Park' if you pause it at the right time you will see the site they were on was called 'Easypedia', which is an actual website.
 * Cartman befriending Cthulu to his advantage, mirrors the plot of the movie How To Train Your Dragon.

Goofs

 * Timmy is able to get up and down the basement staircase without any problems despite his wheelchair and the suit he wears. But we can assume Timmy is helped up the stairs by the others as they crowd arround him when they go to leave.
 * When Cartman (The Coon) is talking to Cthulhu on the broken down roller coaster and his image is reflecting off Cthulu's eye, the parting in his hair is on the left in the reflection. Then he turns around, and when he turns back his parting is on the right in his reflection.