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Fatbeard "Fatbeard/Trivia" "Dead Celebrities/Trivia" "Butters' Bottom Bitch/Trivia" Butters' Bottom Bitch

This page contains trivia for "Dead Celebrities". Remember, trivia must be factual, provable, and it is always best to cite your source for not-so-obvious trivia. If you would like to dispute a trivia point, please discuss it in the talk page.

Trivia[]

  • According to this episode, Stan has a stronger digestive system than Cartman, or as Cartman puts it, a "golden rectum of the Gods".
  • While waiting at the Denver's Hospital for Children, Kenny is seen reading a Coco magazine.
  • Cartman said that they still show Billy Mays' commercials. Mays' commercials continued to air after his death, including two new commercials he filmed shortly before his death. His commercials as well as his show, Pitchmen were eventually taken over by his friend and co-worker, Anthony Sullivan.[1][2]
  • Billy Mays' son, Billy Mays III, has said that he is a huge fan of South Park and was proud of the portrayal of his father in this episode, finding it tasteful and funny.[3][4]
  • This is the only Season Thirteen episode where Butters does not appear.

References to Popular Culture[]

Continuity[]

Goofs[]

  • When Billy Mays is trying to sell his products in Purgatory, he is seated next to Kennedy and Richardson and behind some background characters. In the end, when they land in Hell, he is seated next to someone else. At the part where all the celebrities yell, Mays is no longer present.
  • In the scene where Cartman shows the boys Mays selling a product for cleaning blood stains out of underwear, they start in Cartman's house when they go to the TV. However, when they go back to see the boys' reaction to the commercial, they are in Kyle's house.
  • In the deleted scene, Michael Jackson's tombstone in Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California shows a death date of July 25th - Jackson actually died on June 25th. However, many people believed this to be a clue that Jackson is alive.
  • The male doctor says he will let Dr. Phillips take care of it, but the woman's tag says, "Dr. Tangina."
  • At the end when Michael Jackson gets on the plane, Patrick Swayze can be seen seated on the far left. He disappears and reappears between subsequent shots.

Hidden Visitors[]

  • When Ike is announced the winner of the pageant, a hidden Visitor wearing a wig and makeup is visible in the last row of the theater.

Deleted Scene[]

  • The boys walk into Forest Lawn Memorial Park to really prove to Michael Jackson (in Ike's body) that he's dead with his burial spot there. Jackson then still doesn't believe it and says his family prepurchased a mausoleum for him and no one is buried in it yet, he then Jackson breakdances. Furious of him, Kyle picks up a shovel and starts digging up the grave to show Jackson's corpse. Stan then tells Kyle that this might anger people, and the boys give a stare at the fourth wall. Kyle shrugs and continues digging with the rest of the boys joining in.

Dubbing Changes[]

International Titles[]

Language Title Translation
Czech Mrtvé celebrity Dead Celebrities
French Vedettes mortes Dead Celebrities
German Tote Promis Dead Celebrities
Hungarian Celebhalottak Dead Celebrities
Italian Morti celebri Dead Celebrities
Latvian Mirušas slavenības Dead Celebrities
Polish Martwi celebryci Dead Celebrities

References[]


  1308: "Dead Celebrities" edit
Story Elements

Ike BroflovskiBilly MaysChipotlawayMichael JacksonPurgatoryGhost Hunters • "Just a Little Girl"

Media

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Release

South Park: The Complete Thirteenth Season

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