Sexual Harassment Panda/Trivia

Trivia
''Who lives in the east 'neath the willow tree? Sexual Harassment Panda. Who'll explain sexual harassment to you and me? Sexual Harassment Panda. Don't say that. Don't touch there. Don't be nasty says the silly bear. He's gonna tell you what's right and wrong. Sexual Harassment Panda.''
 * Gerald is called 'Kyle's Dad' in the commercial in this episode.
 * This episode implies that Principal Victoria is a murderer.
 * First appearance of Skeeter and his friends.
 * Judge Julie, who presides over all the cases is a play on Judge Judy, a famous female judge.
 * The lyrics to Sexual harassment Panda's Song (which can be hard to hear) is:
 * This is the first episode after "South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut".
 * A Cyborg Bill doll can be seen on the floor of Stan's room. Eric calls it a Power Jim Doll.

References to Popular Culture

 * This episode was inspired by the many high profile cases of sexual harassment in schools that occurred in the 1990's. This was likely spun off into the public consciousness due to the sexual harassment charges made against then President Bill Clinton. One such high profile case involved James Maas professor of social psychology at Cornell University who was accused of sexually harassing his students in 1994. The university didn't find evidence of any wrong doing. It is still argued to this date if he really did harass any of his students or if he was subject to a witch hunt during a period the States was going through a "sexual-harassment" revolution. This led to many changes in Federal and State laws regarding sexual harassment (particularly in a school environment) which was capitalized on by lawyers who took advantage of the vagueness of some of the knee jerk laws that were put into place.
 * Cartman confuses Sexual Harassment with tickling someone's testicles while they are having sex. While it's not specific to getting someone while they're having sex, the act that Eric is describing is (as referred to by the Urban Dictionary) the Test-Tickle.
 * Petey the Sexual Harassment Panda sometimes goes to the length of replacing regular verbs with the word "panda" much like the Smurfs would replace verbs with the word "Smurf".
 * Judge Julie is a parody of TV judge Judge Judy whose show began airing in 1996. She has been often criticized for her abrasive behavior when dealing with some of the people standing before her court.
 * Gerald's advertisement is a parody of numerous television commercials where lawyers use flashy gimmicks and dialogue to entice people to seek their legal services. Often big cash settlements are promised, along with claims that they will win your case or they won't charge you a fee.
 * Mr. Garrison is actually teaching the children something factual in this episode: He asks them when Ulysses S. Grant was President of the United States. He was the 18th President from 1869-1877.
 * Craig confuses Incineration a waste treatment process that involves burning away trash with Incrimination a means of possibly proving criminal intent or involvement in something illegal.
 * Sexual Harassment Panda goes to The Island of Misfit Mascots; this is a parody of the Island of Misfit Toys featured in the animated Christmas special Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer an island for strange toys that nobody really wants.
 * Gerald sues TV reporter Kevin McCarthy for Slander for his comments about Gerald. Technically since McCarthy is saying this on television it's in reality libel. Either way both terms are a kind of defamation, a legal term when someone makes a negative statement about a person or thing in a public way which may have a negative impact on their personal or business interests, that is perceived to be false by the one filing suit.
 * Skeeter's question about why if Panda's live in the mountains why do they eat Bamboo which is located in drier more arid regions. Clearly Skeeter (like any racist) is incredibly misinformed: Pandas used to reside in lower regions of China and Tibet until development by humans forced them to relocate to higher regions for food.
 * The bar tenders request to not cause any trouble in his bar is a common cliché from films and television originating from many westerns such as the The Proud Ones.
 * Gerald justifies his law suits due to the Democrats. Changes to sexual harassment law by the Democratic Party of the United States during their term in power during the 1990's led to changes to the sort of potentially frivolous lawsuits due to the vagueness of the law. These changes would eventually harm the Democrats when when it came to the aforementioned sexual harassment cases against Bill Clinton launched by Monica Lewinsky.
 * Kyle likens Gerald's explanation as Fascism as opposed to democracy because it sounds like of authoritarianism.