A History Channel Thanksgiving/Trivia

Trivia

 * This is the first holiday episode since Season Eleven's "Fantastic Easter Special".
 * This is the first Thanksgiving-themed episode since Season Four's "Helen Keller! The Musical".
 * The turkey hand is a common way for children to draw a turkey for Thanksgiving.
 * The planets seen on the star map are Earth, Plymouth, Indi, Colthenheim and Green Lantern World, the latter of which nobody really cares about. Apparently, these planets align with the Turkey Hand.
 * Natalie Portman is a pun on Transport Man.
 * The History Channel President with twelve agents mirror Phil Coulson of S.H.I.E.L.D. in the movie Thor.

References to Popular Culture

 * This episode's plot is a satire of the paranormal show Ancient Aliens, shown on The History Channel.
 * The majority of this episode is a parody of the Marvel Comics' film Thor (2011) which also featured Natalie Portman in the same role as this episode.
 * One of the planets on the map the pilgrim shows Kyle was called the "Green Lantern World" in reference to the film Green Lantern.
 * "He who controls the stuffing, controls the universe," is a reference to the line, "he who controls the spice controls the universe," from the book and film Dune.
 * The star map is a reference to the different families' planets in the Dune saga.
 * DeVry Intitute is a privately owned technical college with campuses around the United States.

Continuity

 * Cartman compares Kyle's cynical attitude to menopause. This joke is call back the events of "It Hits the Fan" and "Are You There God? It's Me, Jesus".
 * The History Channel was used as a study aid in "I'm a Little Bit Country" for an assignment on the founding of the United States of America.
 * This episode has Indians and pilgrims from different worlds. This was last mentioned in "Canceled", in which the aliens revealed that Earth's population is in fact comprised of many different species taken from different planets.
 * The restaurant that Kyle and Natalie eat at has a similar background and waiter as the Italian restaurant Buca De Faggoncini in the episode "Erection Day".
 * Butters is seen watching one of The Jonas Brothers' music videos. The music video originally appeared in the episode "The Ring".
 * The pilgrims have the capability to break through the force field around Earth that was put there in "Pinewood Derby".
 * There is a picture of Kyle and his elephant in his room.

About the Planets

 * Earth - A planet where the Pilgrims and the Indians settled many years ago.
 * Plymouth - Home to the Pilgrims. They control the Stuffing mines.
 * Indi - Home of the Indian People. They are trying to take the stuffing mines from the Pilgrims.
 * Colthenheim - A name made to mimic the Nine Worlds of the Asgard (comics) Dimention in Marvel's Thor universe.
 * Green Lantern World - Green Lantern a movie that had some similarities with Thor in that they both involved extra-terrestrials and comic book super heroes. Thor was popular while Green Lantern was not.

Real History

 * "Indus" is the name of a real-life constellation, representing an Indian. This could refer to an Indian of either American or Asian origin. The genitive form of the word, "Indi", is used in individual star designations; a star labelled "Indi" is seen on the star map that Miles Standish presents to Kyleduring the episode.
 * Historically, the pilgrims were an English separatist religious movement from Plymouth, England. "Plymouth" is also the name of Plymouth Rock in Massachusetts, traditionally identified as the place where the pilgrims landed in 1620 in order to establish a new colony.
 * The natives of the Americas are named Indians from the error that Christopher Columbus belived he was close to the East Indies and China. The Carribean island chain is called the West Indies because of this.

Goofs

 * Kyle claims to never have known anyone with dual citizenship, yet his brother Ike holds citizenship for both the United States and Canada. He was being polite trying to speed the dinner date up so the wormhole could be opened.
 * Miles Standish says Kyle is 9 years old. However, in "Crack Baby Athletic Association", an episode that came earlier this season, Stan says Kyle is 10.
 * All the boys are upstairs in Kyle's room, but when they go downstairs to watch TV, they're at Cartman's house.
 * Throughout the episode, Mile's cape appears and disappears periodically.
 * When Miles put down the map he had showed Kyle, it disappears.
 * For a few seconds during the episode, when Miles is being thrown from The Indian planet, he is drawn with gloves on.