Elementary School Musical/Trivia

Trivia

 * Cartman rips on Scott Malkinson for having a lisp and diabetes. Kyle also has diabetes, as mentioned by his mom in Season 4's Cherokee Hair Tampons. However, only Stan and Kyle know this, and as such wouldn't mention it.
 * The school hall in which the kids dance is the same as the one in Middle Park Elementary, as seen in Quest for Ratings.
 * A clip from this episode is used for Stan and Kyle's line in the shows revised theme, first shown in the Season Fourteen opener Sexual Healing.
 * Despite having no musical or dancing talent until the end of this episode, Stan, Kyle and Cartman all participated in musical scenes in South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, and Kenny proved himself to be a talented opera singer in "Quintuplets 2000".
 * Craig is seen joining in with the rest of the school although he should, like the rest of the boys, have no knowledge of the new fad due to the events of the previous episode.

Continuity

 * At the beginning, when Jimmy Valmer (in response to the boys not knowing what High School Musical is) asks the boys where they have been, Craig replies "Peru", referencing "Pandemic" and "Pandemic 2: The Startling".
 * The Marshes appear to have a television in this episode, despite Cartman stealing it in "About Last Night"; although, this may have simply been that they bought a new television.
 * Kyle is shown to be a good dancer at the end in his episode, however in Rainforest Schmainforest, Kyle proves to have absolutely no dancing talent, supposedly because of the fact he is Jewish (at least according to Cartman). The events of "Rainforest Schmainforest" are also contradicted in "Something You Can Do with Your Finger" and "Helen Keller! The Musical".

High School Musical References

 * This entire episode parodies High School Musical, a series produced by Disney.
 * The "Go with the Status Quo" song is a parody of the High School Musical song "Stick to the Status Quo".
 * Bridon's wish to play basketball is a reversed reference to Zac Efron's High School Musical character Troy, because Troy plays basketball but wanted to be in the school musical.
 * The dance moves of Go with the Status Quo are taken from the High School Musical song All for One.
 * The We're So Happy to Be in School Again song is a parody of '"We're All in This Together".
 * At the end of the episode, Kyle's hair is redesigned from his normal Jewfro to look like Corbin Bleu's hairstyle, who played the supporting part of Chad in High School Musical.

Additional Pop Culture References

 * When Bridon tries to run away, his father threatens to slap him and says "Go ahead, make my day", in reference to Clint Eastwood's Harry Calahan character in "Sudden Impact".
 * In the final musical number Kenny wears a shirt depicting the logo of the Rolling Stones when his parka is undone.