Cartman Sucks/Trivia

Trivia

 * Stephen Stotch says he is bi-curious, as shown in "Butters' Very Own Episode."
 * Kenny McCormick only has one line in this episode; when Cartman shows him the penis photo, he can be clearly heard saying,"That makes you totally fucking gay!"
 * This is the first appearance of Priest Maxi since "Grey Dawn."
 * Cartman has sucked a penis before. It's how he got semen from a "hose" in "Simpsons Already Did It."
 * This episode is a reference to the movie But, I'm a Cheerleader, wherein a young woman is sent to a campsite to cure homosexuals of their so-called unclean desires. The one difference in this is that the campsite only helps young boys and that Butters has no idea what being bi-curious actually means.
 * This is the ninth episode where Cartman's name is in the title.
 * Pastor Phillips, the counselor who was "cured" of his confusion, may be an allusion to Ted Haggard, who went to counseling to make him heterosexual after a man outed him.
 * When Cartman comes to find the picture, Stan, Kyle, and Kenny are all seen playing Living which is an allusion to the popular board game, Life.
 * This is the second time Cartman has overreacted to getting hit by Kyle. The first was in "It's Christmas in Canada"
 * Butters' blood type is revealed to be "O"
 * When Cartman takes a picture of himself with Butters' penis in his mouth he gives a thumbs-up sign and smiles as he says that the picture is against the Iraq war. This is a reference to the controversy of Army Private Lynndie England, who took pictures of herself torturing the prisoners of a Abu Ghraib prison while smiling and giving a thumbs-up sign.
 * A total of 3 people kill themselves at Camp New Grace during the course of the episode.
 * This is first episode Eric Cartman shows an interest in photography.
 * In the movie South Park Bigger, Longer, & Uncut, when Terrance and Phillip a being prepared to be executed Terrance says "Oh, Phillip, this is worse than that night I fell asleep and you put your dick in my mouth and took a picture". Although at the time Trey Parker and Matt Stone at the time might not have been planning to use this joke in the actual show it would become part of the Season 11 episode Cartman Sucks in which, Cartman sticks his dick in Butters mouth while Butters is asleep and takes a picture.

References to Popular Culture

 * Stan, Kyle and Kenny were playing a board game called "Living" which is a parody of The Game of Life. This has been seen before in the episode "All About the Mormons?"
 * Bradley's appearance and mannerisms are modeled after Brad Dourif's portrayal of the character Billy Bibbit in the 1975 film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

Continuity

 * Cyborg Bill makes a reappearance in this episode both as an action figure and in a poster that reads "Gi Bill Won't Run."