Die Hippie, Die/Trivia

Trivia

 * How the mayor survived the suicide attempt, was a statement that she has no brain to begin with.
 * This is the final episode in which Isaac Hayes, who left the show because of "Trapped in the Closet", recorded new dialogue for Chef.

Cultural References

 * This episode is a parody of the two disaster movies Armageddon and The Core in the scene they are saving the day.
 * They use a drill to save the town (world).
 * They stopped the mayor (the government) from using "Plan B" (nuking the town).
 * Somebody offered his life to save the other in the team (Chef walked out of the drill to activate the emergency-rocket so the others could finish the job, even if involuntarily).


 * The hippie jam festival may be a satirization of the famed Woodstock Music Festival in 1969, where an estimated 500,000 people attended a music concert that lasted approximately four days.
 * Also, Cartman's Hippie exterminator outfit is similar to a Ghostbuster outfit.

Goofs

 * At the park where the boys are conversing with the hippies, there are two hippies on a swing in the background. These hippies were supposed to be locked in Cartman's basement. Cartman would have noticed them in the background as Officer Barbrady was in the process of freeing them at this point.