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Trivia

• It is said that "the pox will be harder to cure if contracted as an adult, to the point of becoming potentially lethal." Even though this is somewhat accurate, a fatality caused by chickenpox is actually exceedingly rare.
• Frida offers $10 for a lay and $5 for a b-nut. A lay is slang for having sex, and a b-nut is short for "baby nut," a slang term used to say that a man has ejaculated so profusely that he likely impregnated the woman he was having sex with. It is unknown why a "b-nut" would be cheaper than a "lay".
• Calamine lotion was given to Eric Cartman by his mother. This is a real-world remedy for the itching caused by chickenpox.
• Stan, Kyle and Cartman cross a railroad track to get to Kenny's house, "Wrong side of the tracks" or "other side of the tracks" are common expressions referring to the poor area of a town.
• When Carol, Stuart, and the kids were saying grace on the table, Cartman was not praying.
• In the original storyboards, more kids would be present in the classroom scene besides Kyle, such as Stan, Cartman, Clyde, Kevin and Red.
• Since this episode, every episode of South Park is now uncensored on the website.
• The chickenpox vaccine was already on the schedule for three years when the episode was made, and given how all the children in South Park managed to contract chickenpox, it is clear that none of the children, for whatever reason, received the vaccine.

References to Popular Culture

• On the way to Kenny's house, Kyle hopes that Kenny has a Nintendo. At the time the episode was aired, the most recent Nintendo video game console was the Nintendo 64.
• The McCormicks have a ColecoVision, which is a gaming console that came out in 1982.
• Cartman is shown singing "In the Ghetto", a song written by Mac Davis on 1969, it was made popular by Elvis Presley.
• As Frida was putting her herpes-infected mouth on the boys' parents' belongings, the song "I'm a Believer" was playing. This is a song made in 1966 by The Monkees from their album More of The Monkees. It was also played during the end credits, and the standard Braniff jingle was changed to a rendition of this song.
• Cartman has a Steve Urkel sleeping bag. Steve Urkel was a nerdy character from the sitcom Family Matters, which ran from 1989 until 1998. Urkel was portrayed by the actor Jaleel White.
• Stan claimed that Knight Rider was the best television show in America. It is a television series that ran from 1982 to 1986 and starred David Hasselhoff.
• Cartman thought that the planet Endor, which is the home of the Ewoks, was better than America. Endor and the Ewoks are part of the Star Wars franchise and first appeared in Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi.
• Apparently, a part of Stan's advanced symptoms of chickenpox made him think that he was the actor David Duchovny. Around the time the episode was aired, Duchovny was in the popular paranormal series The X-Files.

Goofs

Kyle's layer mistake

• Stan and Cartman should not be able to see effects from chickenpox a day after going to Kenny's house, as it usually takes 10–21 days before seeing any symptoms.
• The boys are not carrying any items when they are making their way to Kenny's house. However, when Stuart answers the door, they are seen with sleeping bags. This was fixed in the episode's HD remaster.
• When Stan and Kyle enter Cartman's bathroom to tell him that their parents sent them to Kenny's house on purpose to catch the chickenpox, Kyle's head appears under his body layer instead of on top. This was fixed in the episode's HD remaster.
• When Sheila admits to setting up Gerald with Stuart, her eyebrows disappear.
• When Frida contaminates Liane's underwear with herpes, Cartman's chickenpox seemingly disappears.

Kenny's Death

• Dies of a heart attack due to chickenpox.

Dubbing Changes

International Titles

Language	Title	Translation
Czech	Plané neštovice	Chickenpox
Finnish	Vesirokko	Chickenpox
French	Varicelle	Chickenpox
German	Der Wind hat mir ’ne Pocke erzählt…	The wind told me a smallpox...
Hungarian	A bárányhimlő	The chickenpox
Italian	Chi di varicella ferisce di herpes perisce	He who gets chickenpox, perishes from herpes
Japanese	サウスパーク水ぼうそう族 (Sausupāku mizubōsō-zoku)	The South Park Chickenpox Group
Latvian	Vējbakas	Chickenpox
Mandarin Chinese	長水痘 (Cháng shuǐdòu)	Chickenpox
Polish	Ospa wietrzna	Chickenpox
Portuguese (Brazil)	Catapora	Chickenpox
Russian	Ветрянка (Vetryanka)	Chickenpox
Spanish	Varicela	Chickenpox
Ukrainian	Вітрянка (Vitryanka)	Chickenpox

Common

• In the Hungarian and Mandarin Chinese dubs, character voice effects are added for the boys, as they react to Frida contaminating their parents' belongings.
• In the Cantonese and Mandarin Chinese dubs, Stan's parents announce they would have a buffet at a Hyatt hotel instead of Happy Burger.

Cantonese

• The lyrics to "In the Ghetto" by Cartman are rewritten, where Cartman complains of "having a fever".
• Frida is dubbed as Hong Kong actress Winnie Lau. The prices offered for her services are increased 10 times.

Hungarian

• Voices are added for Ike during the boys' parents' meeting at Kyle's house.

Italian (2nd)

• The ColecoVision owned by the McCormicks is not specified.

Mandarin Chinese

• It is revealed that Kenny often eats rat meat, commenting that they are tender.
• For the school assignment, Stan quotes Terrance and Phillip as the best show in America, while Cartman hopes that the world could have an unlimited supply of Cheesy Poofs.
• Frida charges the boys the higher price for giving herpes to their parents.