Volcano/Trivia

Trivia

 * Randy Marsh is introduced in this episode but is never mentioned as Stan's dad.
 * Randy Marsh is missing eyebrows for (almost) the entire episode. They appear near the end.
 * The third episode of the series, this is also the first episode to feature a variation on the "They killed Kenny" routine.
 * In the Spanish dub, Scuzzlebutt's leg is replaced with Ricky Martin instead of Patrick Duffy; in the Hungarian version it is replaced with Tom Cruise.
 * The song Hot Lava that Chef sings features on the Chef Aid: The South Park Album.
 * While Cartman is telling his story Stan's arm is missing but later appears.
 * When Ned says he will never use a gun again, the rifle he uses is still on his holding position, but his hands are not in any place of the gun.
 * When Stan kills Scuzzlebutt, Patrick's head is dislocated from his neck, but when it faces to his dramatic moment, its back on his body as normal.

Pop-Culture/Historical References

 * Happy Tarts are a product that were mentioned in the film Orgazmo, which was a film created by Matt Stone and Trey Parker.
 * Jimbo and Ned both participated in the 'Nam, aka the Vietnam War. Cartman said he fought in it as well, but he's making that up. Ned asks Cartman if he was stationed in Da Nang, which was the location of a major US Airforce base in Vietnam during the war.
 * Jimbo blames the strict hunting and conservation laws in Colorado on the Democrats. The Democrats were in power federally in 1997, the year this episode was produced.
 * Cartman starts having "flashbacks" from 'Nam, telling somebody named Danforth to watch out for "Charlie". "Charlie" is a slang term for the phrase "Victor Charlie" which was the NATO phonetic alphabet name for the Viet Cong Army.
 * Cartman tells Stan to "Go back to Woodstock" if he can't shoot anything. This is in reference to the original Woodstock Music Festival of 1969, who's major attendees were Hippies.
 * When Ned lights himself on fire, Jimbo tells him to "Stop-Drop-And-Roll", which is the catch phrase fire safety measure.
 * Mount Evanston is a real mountain located in the state of Colorado.
 * When warned of Mt. Evanston's impending eruption, the Mayor tells her aide to call Inside Edition (A magazine series that featured crime, celebrity gossip and human interest stories), Rescue 911 (A television program that featured reenactments of real stories of 911 phone calls, hosted by William Shatner), and Entertainment Tonight (A TV series centered on celebrity gossip.)
 * The monster known as Scuzzlebutt is missing a leg, in its place is actor Patrick Duffy. When Cartman tells this legend to his friends, they don't find it very scary, to which Cartman responds by saying "What do you mean? Have you ever seen Step By Step?", Step By Step was a sit-com which starred Patrick Duffy.
 * The song that Ned sings on his "cancer kazoo" is "Kumbaya", a popular Christian folk song.
 * Ned and Jimbo hope to get on the cover of "Guns & Ammo", aka Guns and Ammo Magazine, a publication for gun enthusiasts.
 * The towns people are shown a educational video titled Lava and You which is a parody of Duck and Cover, a nuclear explosion safety technique that suggested ducking and covering yourself would protect you from a nuclear bomb, much like how Lava and You suggests doing the same thing will protect you from lava.

Kenny's Death
Ned dropped his gun and it fired by mistake, killing Kenny.

Fast Forward

 * Ned mentioned that he took part in the war in Vietnam. This was the report given to children by Mr. Garrison in The Mexican Staring Frog of Southern Sri Lanka. When they came to Jimbo and Ned, Uncle Jimbo was telling the story about the times he and Ned spent in Vietnam during the war.
 * The reused clip from this episode was shown in The South Park Clip Show.
 * In Randy's laboratory in Spontaneous Combustion, the poster behind him says "Volcano alert".
 * A man with Scuzzlebutt on his t-shirt was seen behind the boys in The Wacky Molestation Adventure. This man reappeared again with the same t-shirt in Scott Tenorman Must Die.
 * An issue about Scuzzlebutt was published and now shown in local Gazette office, as seen in Stanley's Cup.