Hooked on Monkey Fonics/Trivia

Trivia

 * The heavy metal band Dio performs its hit song "Holy Diver" during the school dance.
 * This is the last episode Mary Kay Bergman worked in. The episode was aired the day before her suicide.
 * The instrumental (without words) version of Chef's song, "Stinky Britches", is played at the school dance before Dio performs.
 * As an earlier episode, Butters has yet to be developed into his current persona, and as such is a bit out of character. Along with Craig he is seen taking part in the bullying of Mark, demanding he leave his "Hamster ball" as that part is "their part of the playground" and then taping him to a bench. He is generally mean-spirited towards Mark in this episode and this may be because he doesn't want to be one of the few people not to pick on him and be singled out.
 * Butters receives his first kiss from an out-of-control Rebecca Cotswolds, yet in "Butters' Bottom Bitch" the other boys tease him for never having kissed a girl. This may be because the boys either forgot about it or that South Park Studios forgot it (considering the episode would've been made from writing-to-airing within 6 days, this is understandable).
 * The word Kyle has to spell at the spelling bee (kroxidyphvic) is not an actual word.
 * The name of the school dance is South Park Elementary Bay of Pigs Memorial Dance. It is named after an unsuccessful attempt by a CIA-trained force of Cuban exiles to invade southern Cuba, with support from US government armed forces, to overthrow the Cuban government of Fidel Castro. It was launched on April 17, 1961 and ended two days later.
 * The flag of Slovenia appears on the back of Rebecca's bedroom door.
 * The molecule hanging in Rebecca's room is ethanoic acid.
 * Cartman briefly sings a song, the lyrics to which are:
 * Who would have thought such a miracle could be?
 * Who could have known that this moment I would see?
 * A new way of living, a chance to be free?

Continuity

 * This is the only appearance of the Cotswalds family.
 * Although Mark appears in a few episodes in a cameo role, Rebecca isn't seen again (though if you look closely in "Super Fun Time", you can see a girl resembling Rebecca with the same hair but different clothes).

References to Popular Culture

 * When Kyle is talking to Rebecca outside her house about "flicker of light", this is a direct reference to the Star Trek episode "The Gamesters of Triskelion", in which Captain Kirk gives a similar speech to an equally sheltered Shahna.

Goofs

 * When Rebecca Cotswolds hits on Token and Red turns her head to glare at her, Clyde and Annie Faulk are shown without mouths.
 * When everyone spills onto the playground, Red is seen wearing Wendy's clothes.
 * At the dance, Kelly is there with Kenny, although Kenny was dead at that point. (You can see parts of Kenny's hood behind Rebecca's hair).
 * In the first shot of the stage at the Spelling Bee Mark is sitting in the chair beside Token, Red is absent. In the next shot of the stage Mark is not in the seat.

Kenny's Death

 * When Kenny tried to take some of the Phonics Monkey's food, it goes mad due to its hunger and severely beats Kenny to death.