Imaginationland, Episode II/Trivia

Trivia

 * The DVD version of this episode opens with a parody of Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, with a long fly-over snow covered mountains which carries on over South Park and into Butter's bedroom.
 * Cartman's dream parodies the dream Maximus has in the movie Gladiator.
 * The opening scene of Butters dreaming of waking up, only to find out the opposite, may allude to a scene in an episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus, "The Bicycle Tour".
 * The imagination doorway parodies the movie and television franchise Stargate. In fact, when the boys are brought into the "gate room" a few chords from David Arnold's theme for the movie can be heard in the background. This fact is made obvious when the military hire Kurt Russell (who played Colonel Jack O'Neil in the movie) to go through the doorway first.
 * Characters from previous episodes return here: Jesus, who has been in various episodes, Manbearpig who appeared in an episode of the same name, and the woodland critters from "Woodland Critter Christmas". Jesus has appeared in South Park as a real person with his own public-access show on several occasions, Manbearpig is imaginary, having been created by Al Gore and the little woodland critters were created by Cartman for his Christmas short story at school.
 * Castle Sunshine is a replica of Rivendell from the Lord of The Rings movies.
 * Kyle's death (and revival by Cartman) is taken from the movie The Abyss.
 * The Christmas Woodland Critters are the imaginary creations of Eric Cartman.
 * This is the second time Predator attempts to kill Butters, the first time being Butters' Very Own Episode
 * The Manbearpig is the imaginary creation of Al Gore.
 * This is another instance of the government attempting to solve problems by nuking things, also seen in the episode "A Ladder to Heaven".
 * This is one of the two episodes that shows Cartman's penis, The other episode that shows his penis in "Good Times with Weapons".
 * This is the second time Cartman saves Kyle's life. Being the first one on "Smug Alert!".
 * Kenny does not appear in this episode.

Goofs

 * Al Gore said that ManBearPig works alone, but he is with other evil imaginary characters. He was alone, though, when he was in the Pentagon (probably because Al Gore said that ManBearPig roams the Earth alone).