Ass Burgers/Trivia

Trivia

 * The phrase "ass burgers" is a play on the name of the disorder, Asperger's Syndrome. The name of this episode was suggested on the South Park Studios message board by a fan months before the episode aired in lieu of this well known joke.
 * This is another episode where the theme is a real disability of some nature, after "Timmy 2000", "Le Petit Tourette", and "City Sushi".
 * The disabilities are ADD (and mental retardation), Tourette's Syndrome, MPD and Aspergers.
 * Other episodes like "Crippled Summer" also contains the theme of disability, but that's because Timmy and/or Jimmy are playing a leading role.
 * This episode parodies the idea that immunizations can cause Asperger's Syndrome, something that Trey Parker and Matt Stone's fellow BASEketball co-star Jenny McCarthy has passionately pursued and even written a book about.
 * When the two creepy boys comment that Kyle and Wendy should "just screw and get it over with", it is making fun of those who create online fanfiction that dives deeper into characters' relationships. Matt Stone has been asked how he feels about these in the past and he simply said, "I try not to think about it."
 * The song "Landslide" was written by Stevie Nicks while in Colorado. The song was a metaphor about her life going in an uncertain direction at the time.
 * During restaurant executives meeting, several chemical compounds are shown ([[media:AssBurgers32.png|link to image]]) as being somehow infused into Cartman Burger in a gaseous form. Three have been identified; caffeine, next to Taco Bell; benzene, next to Burger King; and retinol (also known as vitamin A) next to KFC.
 * When Stan visits Kyle for the first time when he is drunk, Cartman keeps looking back at the two, as if worried Stan will do something to hurt Kyle.
 * At the end, when Stan sees Kyle yelling at Cartman about his burgers, Kyle says that Cartman has been sticking them in his ass. This is incorrect, as Cartman was actually keeping them in his pants and farting on them, not sticking them up his ass.
 * Stans new room at his mothers place has a view of Whistlin' Willies, a pizza place in South Park.

Continuity

 * Ms. Bronski, a new school nurse, appears. Nurse Gollum appears to have been retired or moved on after over ten years since her last speaking appearance.
 * This is not the first time that South Park has shown food being inserted into the rear to be relevant to medicine, nor the first reference to the idea. The episode "Red Hot Catholic Love" showed that by eating through ones rectum, digestion is easier and healthier (though the surgeon giving approval based this on, "absolutely nothing").
 * At the end of the episode, we find Stan using alcohol to see the world as he did before. In the episode "My Future Self n' Me", Stan's fake future version of himself comes to visit as a drug addict and alcoholic to discourage him from going down that road.
 * The alcoholic drink Stan is given to help him see the world as it was is Jameson Irish Whiskey which was founded in 1780, marking the first real alcoholic beverage in South Park.
 * This is the second episode were the title has Ass (noun) in the title, the first being Asspen.
 * Ms. Bronski could be another school nurse, rather then Nurse Gollums replacement, as it is likely that the school has more than one nurse.

References to Popular Culture

 * At the meeting where people were discussing Cartman Burger, there are several real restaurant franchises including Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, McDonalds, Burger King, City Wok, Subway and KFC.
 * Some movie references include Hancock and The Matrix trilogy.
 * The morning radio show is a parody of the popular FM Radio comedy DJ's in many parts of the USA.
 * The advert that Stan sees on TV is for an actual TV show called Terra Nova.
 * "Landslide" (wikipedia article) by Stevie Nicks is again played at the end of this episode.
 * The song Cartman is singing while making hamburgers is "Heartlight" by Neil Diamond.
 * The final Morning Radio Show mentions Two and a Half Men and how Ashton Kutcher has taken the lead role in the show.
 * The way Stan and the other Aspergers Syndrome Group act in in the real world, and how they believe they are acting, could be a reference to the movie " AHHHH ZOMBIES!!! ", which has zombified people seeing things as normal, but are seen to act much different in the eyes of normal people. Stan acts normal in his own perspective, but is actually shown to be off balance and talk in a slur.

Goofs

 * There is a green version of Craig in the background when Cartman sells his burgers. In another shot, both this green look-alike of Craig and the normal Craig are visible in the same shot, meaning this is probably just the animation team re-using character models.


 * When Stan first talks to Kyle when he is drunk, Kyle's left eyebrow is going up his visor. His visor cover part of his eyebrow, but the top is still black, as if not under the visor. The eyebrow should be behind the transparent blue visor.