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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 mention of different species coming to Earth from other planets was last seen in "Cancelled ".
• A planet labelled "Indi" is seen on a star map is short for Indian; The first Spanish explorers mistakenly believed they were in the Asian West Indies when discovering the Caribean islands.
• The other planets on the star map are Earth, Plymouth, Indi, Colthenheim and Green Lantern World, the latter of which nobody really cares about.
• Natalie Portman is a portmanteau of Transport Man.
• There is a picture in Kyle's room of him and his elephant.
• The Pilgrims were an English separatist religious movement from Plymouth, UK.
• Plymouth Rock is in Massachusetts, USA where the Pilgrims landed in 1620 in order to establish a new colony.
• The Turkey Hand is a common way for children to draw a turkey for Thanksgiving.

References to Popular Culture

• This episode plot is a satire of the paranormal show Ancient Aliens 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" a reference to the film Green Lantern.
• He who controls the stuffing controls the universe is a reference to the book and film Dune; "He who controls the spice controls the universe."
• The star map is a reference to the different family's planets in the Dune saga.
• Devry Intitute is an privately owned technical college with campuses around the United States.

Continuity

• Cartman gets confused about human physiology and thinks males have menopause after the menstral cycle stops. The last time this happened was "Are You There God? It's Me, Jesus". This was a running joke throughout the episode.
• This episode has Indians and Pilgrims from different worlds. This was last mentioned in "Canceled", when 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".
• 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.
• Cartman gets confused about human physiology and thinks males have menopause after the menstral cycle stops in women. The last time this happened was in the episode "Are You There God? It's Me, Jesus".

Goofs

• Kyle claims to never have known anyone with dual citizenship, yet his brother Ike holds citizenship for both the United States and Canada.
• All the boys are upstairs in Kyles room but when they go downstairs to watch TV they are at Cartman's house.