Ginger Kids/Trivia

Trivia

 * Kyle whispered to Cartman that he's not really a ginger, however, when "201" aired, it is revealed that Cartman has the ginger gene due to his real father, Jack Tennorman, carrying it.
 * When Kyle and Stan are visiting the "Ginger family", the father says that the odds of them having a ginger child is 1/4, and then says "what are the odds? (for three ginger kids)". The odds of exactly 3 ginger kids where 1 is 25% is, (0.25^3=) 1.5625%

Popular culture references

 * When concluding his first speech, Cartman says "If you think that the ginger problem is not a serious one," He then shows a picture of Carrot Top and Sean Doherty and finishes his sentence saying "think again."
 * The ginger kids appearing at a window is a reference to the TV adaptation of the Stephen King book 'Salem's Lot.
 * The term "Daywalker" is a reference to the Marvel Comics character Blade.
 * Cartman's group proceeds to savagely attack a non-ginger actress for portraying the ginger role of Little Orphan Annie in the musical "Annie".
 * When Cartman wakes up, before he realizes he is now ginger, as he walks across the hall to the bathroom he sings "Lucille" by Kenny Rogers.
 * Six notable kids that weren't captured by the gingers were Butters, Wendy, Jimmy, Timmy, Pip, and Jason.
 * The nagging hotel clerk at the ginger's hotel convention meeting is a reference to The Witches.
 * When the kids go to talk to the parents of some local ginger kids, the father tells them that if they don't want to have gingers they should marry an Asian woman. He then says he knows a guy who is marrying a Japanese woman for that very reason. This is a reference to Trey Parker who at the time was engaged (and is now married) to a Japanese woman.
 * In the playground when Cartman leads the gingers, they shout, "Red Power!" as a reference to the Ku Klux Klan's motto, "White Power!"
 * The scene, where the little girl is singing a tune while approaching the house, is a reference to the Nightmare On Elm Street, where Freddy Kruger sings a similar song.
 * In the playground scene, when Cartman and the ginger kids shout "Better red than dead", it is a parody of "Better dead than red", a phrase used by Americans in the Cold War.
 * When the ginger kids appear at night, scare off several children in South Park and two of them lock themselves in to escape it is a reference to Michael Jackson's music video "Thriller" where the horde of zombies surround Michael and his girlfriend. This music video has already been parodied before in the 1st season's episode "Pinkeye".

Continuity

 * This is the first episode to introduce Gordon Stoltski, who would later appear in "Miss Teacher Bangs a Boy", "Fatbeard" and then be killed in "Dances with Smurfs"
 * This is Cartman's second formal attempt at Genocide. His first attempt was during "Passion of the Jew" in which he attempted to lead people into exterminating the Jewish people.
 * This episode is another occasion in which Cartman uses a class assignment in order to promote his bigotry and cruelty. Other times were during "Breast Cancer Show Ever" and "Mystery of the Urinal Deuce". He also used the school morning announcement's in a similar fashion in the episode "Dances With Smurfs".
 * Promotional videos for Season 14, shows Cartman once again in Ginger Make-up, screaming at a video camera about Ginger Rights and that they do so have souls, before making assorted insane noises at the camera. While this video does not appear in an actual episodes, the video was actually made a spoiler for episode "201", in which it is revealed that Cartman's biological father is Jack Tenorman, father of Cartman's rival Scott Tenorman. This would mean that Cartman is half-ginger Daywalker (like Kyle), a fact that horrifies Cartman. Or it is most likely just a parody of this youtube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EY39fkmqKBM
 * The fact that Liane Cartman is horrified that her son is Ginger and later considers 'putting him down' is ironic, since she got pregnant by a the red haired Jack Tenorman.

Controversy
Although this episode aired in 2005, it has been cited in connection with a Facebook group titled "National Kick a Ginger Day, are you going to do it?", which surfaced about November 21, 2008, suggesting abuse towards red-heads. The 14-year old group administrator (Jaewon Kim) said the group (which had over 20000 members) was only satire. The page, which urges members to "get them steel toes ready," had garnered hundreds of messages. Many were from people claiming to have already kicked redheads that day; others expressed outrage.

The outrage felt by those, is parodied in South Park 200th Episode, in which the Ginger Separatist Movement reforms (without Cartman this time). Furious at being mocked, abused and bullied, the Gingers attempt to steal the Muslim Prophet Muhammad, in the hopes to gain his power of not being ridiculed.