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Trivia

• This episode pokes fun at the way some parents reacted when South Park was put on the air.
• Running Gag: Someone gets explosive diarrhea, and they run to the bathroom.
• This marks the first of many battles South Park's parents fight to protect their children.
• After hearing of Kyle's mother, Sheila Broflovski's disdain over Terrance and Phillip, as well as her intent to get them off the air, Cartman remarks that Kyle's mother has these sort of episodes around once every month, hinting that her outrage could be linked to her menstrual period.
• This episode, according to Trey Parker, was the model for the film South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut.
• Stan Marsh, Eric Cartman and Kyle Broflovski's mothers are referred to as "Carol" in this episode.
• A man called "Mr. McCormick" is depicted in this episode being flung into the Cartoon Central building. Matt Stone and Trey Parker state in the commentary for this episode that "that just happens to be another man with the last name McCormick, it's not Kenny's dad. Kenny's dad wears a scotch hat."
• Terrance and Phillip had different-sounding voices in this episode; strangely, Terrance is voiced by Trey Parker here, and Phillip by Matt Stone; going forward, Parker and Stone would provide the voices for the opposite characters. Also, the characters' movements appear more restricted than in later episodes.
• When Sheila Broflovski demonstrates a Terrance and Phillip cartoon clip, Randy Marsh is the only person who's laughing. His love of the Terrance and Phillip cartoon was shown again in "Clubhouses". Although in South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut he is shown protesting against Terrance and Phillip with the others. This may have been merely for Sharon Marsh's benefit, however.
• In this episode, Terrance is voiced by Trey Parker and Phillip by Matt Stone. All subsequent episodes, however, reverse this, so that Terrance is voiced by Stone and Phillip by Parker.
• Terrance and Phillip came about when Matt Stone and Trey Parker kept getting complaints about South Park only being about fart jokes.
• Despite The Terrance and Phillip Show airing on Cartoon Central, they are "live-action" in the show's universe.
• Fosse McDonald's classroom seat is replaced by Pip Pirrip starting from this episode. Fosse would reappear in the classroom for a final time in "Clubhouses".
• Eric Cartman's original line when Liane Cartman tells him about Kyle Broflovski's mom banning Terrence and Phillip was "Kyle's mom is a dirty Jew!". On Comedy Central, the last two words were bleeped out. On the video and DVD release, however, only "dirty" was bleeped. In the remastered HD version, the last two words are uncensored.
• Cartman's line "Just because your mom's a b**** doesn't mean the whole world has to suffer!" foreshadows the events of South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut.
• This episode marks the first appearance of Sheila Broflovski, Kyle's overprotective mother while Kyle's father, Gerald Broflovski is not introduced until "Mr. Hankey, the Christmas Poo".
• Cartman's line "I would never kill someone....unless they piss me off" is a line Trey Parker said in the "Fireside Chat with Matt and Trey" introduction to "Weight Gain 4000".
• Stan seems to be quite strong since he can hang his grandpa single-handedly.
• The parents and adults are shown to be hypocrites as they say Terrence and Phillip is nothing but toilet humour and it's not funny, yet they all make constant jokes about their stomach flu issues with comments like "Making Gravy".

References to Popular Culture

• Terrance and Phillip is a partial parody of popular adult themed cartoon Beavis & Butt-Head. The title characters of this series often sat on their couch and would exchange fart jokes and other toilet humor. Paramount also owns the rights to both South Park and Beavis and & Butt-Head.
• When debating the subject of assisted suicide, Kyle mentions a guy named "Jack Laborkian" who "goes around and murders people who asks him to, and he doesn't get in any trouble at all." Kyle is referring to pathologist Jack Kevorkian who subject of controversy in the 90's for his involvement in nearly 100 assisted suicides between the years 1990 to 1998.
• Jesus not wanting to "touch" the subject of assisted suicide with a "sixty foot pole" is most likely a comment on the Catholic belief that in most cases assisted suicide would be considered a sin.
• The Cartoon Central TV network is an obvious mixed parody of Cartoon Network and Comedy Central, the latter TV Network that airs South Park.
• Sheila Broflovski demands more "quality" television like the TV show Full House.
• The song that Stan's grandpa forces him to listen to is "Gonna Fly" by Toddy Walters, a parody of Enya's "Orinoco Flow (Sail Away)".
• Bowing down to protests, Cartoon Central replaces Terrance and Phillip with She's the Sheriff starring actress Suzanne Somers.

Continuity

• When Marvin wants Stan to kill him, Stan says "I can't even kill a deer", this is a reference to the episode, "Volcano".
• When an ill Kenny asks to use the restroom in this episode, he uses a restroom set inside the classroom, which was never seen previously and has not been seen since.
• Stan's room is shown to be on the first floor rather than the second as the series later establishes.
• Marvin claims to have dug up the skeleton of Cartman's great-grandmother. However, in the episode "Merry Christmas Charlie Manson!", Cartman's great-grandmother is still alive.

Goofs

• In the beginning of the episode, where the cake is shown on the table, it is there one moment, then after disappearing when it zooms in on Marvin Marsh, only to be back after Stan proclaims the time at 8 o'clock.
• After Terrance asks Phillip to pull his thumb and he farts, Stan laughs in Kyle's voice. Also, when Kyle suggests watching porn, Stan says, "Cool!", in Kyle's voice as well.
• When Marvin Marsh tries to kill himself with a shotgun while Stan is watching TV, he shoots a picture frame. But after he yells out "Dammit!" due to his failure to kill himself, the shotgun is missing.
• When Cartman punches Kyle in the classroom, Tolkien's desk is not in front of him. But when the scene turns to Clyde, Tolkien's desk is in front of Cartman.
• When Kenny gives Mr. Garrison his late note, his glove is orange rather than the usual brown.
• When Sheila Broflovski goes to turn on the TV after Terrance and Phillip gets cancelled, the bottom part of the TV is missing.
• When the TV store has a scene where Terrance and Phillip are in outer space, they both have American flags on their chests, not Canadian flags.
• There are 77 candles on the cake. Due to symmetry, of which many are seen on both sides, there would be 100. Grandpa Marsh is 102.
• The Statue of Liberty blinks occasionally at some shots centered in it. It also has white eyes.
• When the fat man with blonde hair is accidentally slingshot on the building, he is missing his hair in one frame, right before he splats.
• When Death is just about to kill Kenny, Kyle's jacket goes through his collar.
• Butters walks into Mr. Garrison's classroom but is not seen in a seat nor elsewhere in the class.
• When Stan is holding a rope to help grandpa commit suicide at home, the rope in his hand stretches horizontally, and right in the next shot, it goes diagonally onto the beam.
• The third grade classroom is shown to have built in restrooms for the students when Kenny goes to have explosive diarrhea. This is the first and only time these bathrooms are ever shown.

Kenny's Death

• Kenny died by being touched by Death.

Dubbing Changes

International Titles

Language	Title	Translation
Czech	Smrt	Death
Finnish	Kuolema	Death
French	La Mort	Death
German	Wer killt Opa?	Who kills grandpa?
Hungarian	Halál	Death
Italian	Una questione di morte o di morte	A matter of death or death
Japanese	スタンのおじいちゃん、ポックリ大作戦 (Sutan no ojīchan, pokkuri dai sakusen)	Stan's grandfather, great pokkuri strategy
Latvian	Nāve	Death
Mandarin Chinese	屎蛋爺爺求死記＆凱子媽反彈「狼兇狗弟」 (Shǐ dàn yéyé qiú sǐ jì & kǎizi mā fǎntán `láng xiōng gǒu dì')	Stan's grandfather death chronicle and Kyle's mom bounces back (on) Terrance and Phillip
Polish	Śmierć	Death
Portuguese (Brazil)	Morte	Death
Russian/Ukrainian	Смерть (Smert')	Death
Spanish	Muerte	Death

Common

• In the Cantonese, French, Hungarian and Italian (1st) dubs, Stan reads aloud the chores list hung outside his room.
• In the Cantonese, French, Hungarian, Italian (1st and 2nd), Spanish (Latin America; 1st) and Ukrainian dubs, Mr. Garrison reads aloud the note which he received from Kenny.
• In the Cantonese and French dubs, after leaving the toilet at the PTA meeting, Mr. Garrison thinks that he has gotten gastroenteritis instead of the flu.
• The Snacky Cakes given to Cartman is replaced with other food items in the following dubs:
  • French: Cupcakes
  • Hungarian, Italian (2nd) and Spanish (Latin America; 1st): Cookies.
  • Portuguese (Brazil): Maria-mole
  • Spanish (Latin America; 2nd): Sweets.
• Sheila quotes other shows/channels over Full House as an example of quality television in the following dubs:
  • Cantonese: A Kindred Spirit
  • French: Derrick
  • German: Little House on the Prairie
  • Mandarin Chinese: Star Chinese Channel
  • Portuguese (Brazil): Domingão do Faustão
• Randy's advice to Stan on keeping the thermostat under 70 is converted to metric in the following dubs:
  • French: 18°C (64.4°F)
  • German, Italian (2nd), Japanese and Portuguese (Brazil): 20°C (68°F)
  • Hungarian: 21°C (69.8°F)

Cantonese

• Cartman calls out Kyle's mom a "b****" during class, ahead of the scene where the boys watch Terrance and Phillip in Stan's house.

French

• The running gag of "not touching that with a x-foot pole" is replaced with the phrase "Même pour x million, je ne pourrai pas te répondre" ("Even for $x million, I won't be able to answer you"). The gag lies in the increment of the monetary amount, with Mr. Garrisom quoting 1 million, Chef at 10 million, and Jesus at 100 million.

German

• Kyle's reference to Jack Leborkian is changed to Julius Hackethal, a German surgeon who was an active supporter of euthanasia. He was accused of active participation in multiple cases of physician-assisted suicide, but was never convicted. He died in 1997.
• In order to avoid an antisemitic joke, Cartman's line "Kyle's mom is a dirty Jew!" was changed to "Kyles Mutter ist 'ne Hure!" - translated "Kyle's mom is a dirty w****!".

Hungarian

• After Marvin Marsh blows his birthday candles, Stan's and Shelley's cheers are muted.
• The running gag of "not touching that with a x-foot pole" is replaced with the phrase "Ez nagyon nehéz kérdés" ("This is a very difficult question"). The gag lies in the repetition of nagyon (very), with Chef repeating it twice, and Jesus repeating four times.

Italian (2nd)

• When Cartman complains about Kyle's mother before class, he comments on how "she has been bringing up the (same) story, telling all the mothers how un-educational it is", implying that the kids watching Terrance and Phillip has been recurring instead of a one-time issue.
• The running gag of "not touching that with a x-foot pole" is removed and replaced with other simpler phrases:
  • Mr. Garrison: Non sono proprio sicuro che sia una buona idea ("I'm not really if this is a good idea.")
  • Jesus: Queste non sono cose da ragazzini ("This isn't a kid stuff")
• The intercom audio on Officer Barbrady's car is translated to Italian.
• In She's the Sheriff, the officer line of "Up yours, butt-munch" is changed to "Prendi, bastardo" ("Up yours, bastard").

Japanese

• At the Cartoon Central HQ, Sheila addresses Stan's mother as "Sharon", while Liane does not call Sheila by name, but uses "すみませんが" (Sumimasenga, "Excuse me").

Mandarin Chinese

• During Officer Barbrady's appearance, his intercom retains the original audio, but the subtitles describe of "someone who has fallen and needs police assistance". Officer Barbrady then replies "Saving a life is more important" before driving off.
• While Sheila is announcing the plan to slingshot people onto Cartoon Central's building, she uses the Second Guangzhou Uprising as an example of how people "die for what they believed in".
• In She's the Sheriff, the dialog is changed where the male character offers to pull down his pants, with the female character expressing interest.

Spanish (Latin America; 1st)

• The running gag of "not touching that with a x-foot pole" is replaced, where the characters would reply similar phrases translating to: "I wouldn't response even if I squeeze (myself)".

Ukrainian

• The Cartoon Central's initial public statement is changed to "Пішли ви всі нафіг" (Pishly vy vsi nafih, "Go to hell").