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• Cartman rips on Scott Malkinson for having a lisp and diabetes. Kyle also has diabetes, as mentioned by his mom in Season Four's "Cherokee Hair Tampons". However, only Stan and Kyle know this, and as such would not mention it.
• Timmy Burch does not appear in Mr. Garrison's classroom in this episode.
• This marks the first time Wendy kisses Stan without him barfing on her.
• The school hall in which the kids' dance is the same as the one in Middle Park Elementary, as seen in "Quest for Ratings".
• A clip from this episode is used for Stan and Kyle's line in the show's revised theme, first shown in the Season Fourteen opener "Sexual Healing".
• Despite having no musical or dancing talent until the end of this episode, Stan, Kyle, and Cartman all participated in musical scenes in South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, and Kenny proved himself to be a talented opera singer in "Quintuplets 2000".
• There is an episode of The Simpsons that is also entitled "Elementary School Musical".
• The song playing in the background during Bridon's basketball game is "Rock N Roll Part II" by Gary Glitter.
• Several color swaps of kids can be seen while the boys sing "You Gotta Do What You Wanna Do!", including a Heidi Turner (who has darker colored clothes) Esther, Sally Turner, Billy Martin, Kelly Rutherford-Menskin and the boy with brown hair and red shirt.
• Part of Stan's dialogue, "No, we just got good at this! Awww-", is still heard during the credits sequence for a few seconds when the episode ends. It is unknown whether this was intentional or not.

References to Popular Culture

• This entire episode parodies High School Musical, a series of movies produced by Disney.
• The "Go With the Status Quo" song is a parody of the High School Musical song "Stick to the Status Quo".
• Bridon's wish to play basketball is a reversed reference to Zac Efron's High School Musical character Troy, because Troy plays basketball but wanted to be in the school musical.
• The dance moves of "Go With the Status Quo" are taken from the High School Musical song "All for One".
• "We're Together at School Again" is a parody of "We're All in This Together".
• At the end of the episode, Kyle's hair is redesigned from his normal Jewfro to look like Corbin Bleu's hairstyle, who played the supporting part of Chad in High School Musical.
• When Bridon tries to run away, his father threatens to slap him and says "Go ahead, make my day", in reference to Clint Eastwood's Harry Callahan character in Sudden Impact.
• In the final musical number, Kenny's parka is open, showing a T-shirt with the logo of The Rolling Stones.
• In Bridon's home, there are posters of "The Phantom of the Opera", "Mamma Mia!", and "A Chorus Line" on the wall.
• The song Wendy sings in the lunchroom at the beginning of the episode, "Everyone is Special", resembles "You Give Love a Bad Name" by Bon Jovi.

Continuity

• At the beginning, when Jimmy Valmer (in response to the boys not knowing what High School Musical is) asks the boys where they have been, Craig replies "Peru", referencing "Pandemic" and "Pandemic 2: The Startling".
• Kyle is shown to be a good dancer at the end in this episode, however, in Rainforest Shmainforest, Kyle proves to have absolutely no dancing talent, supposedly because of the fact he is Jewish (at least according to Cartman).
  • He may have learned how to dance since then, as seen in "Something You Can Do with Your Finger" and "Helen Keller! The Musical".
• This episode marks the first appearance of Scott Malkinson in standard definition of the show. Following the HD remaster, Scott would be seen earlier in Season Eight's "The Jeffersons".

Goofs

• Craig is seen joining in with the rest of the school although he should, like the rest of the boys, have no knowledge of the new fad due being taken to Peru in "Pandemic". It is possible that he watched High School Musical before the boys did.
• In the shot where the boys start singing in "Everyone is Special", Clyde and Jimmy overlap for a few frames as they cross each other.
• After the kids finish singing in the school foyer, the boy with earmuffs is shown overlapping Emily Marx.
• Heidi Turner is wearing gloves when she says that Bridon Gueermo is coming in the lunchroom. A few scenes later, her gloves are off.
• Cartman decides to kill himself because of how disappointed he is in the new fad. When he shows up to school the next morning, Kyle inquires him. Cartman says he went to sleep in his mom's car in the garage with the engine turned on. Stan asks him why he's alive, to which Cartman replies "Freakin' hybrids, man. They just don't do the trick anymore." However, in the Season Ten episode "Smug Alert!", the town vowed to never purchase hybrid cars again, meaning that Cartman's mom should not own a hybrid.
• At the opening shot of the basketball game, Bridon is seen at the front left playing on-court, but a few seconds later, Mr. Garrett calls Bridon off of the bench.
• When the other kids watch the boys sing and dance at the end, despite being the same age, Theresa is shown to be much shorter compared to Allie Nelson.

Dubbing Changes

International Titles

Language	Title	Translation
Czech	Muzikál ze základky	Elementary School Musical
Hungarian	Kosárbogyó vagy musical?	Basketball or musical?
Italian	High South Park Musical	High South Park Musical

Common

• Kenny's lunch of bologna sandwich is changed to a Mortadella sandwich in the Brazilian Portuguese and French dubs.
• Table of songs that are dubbed or re-recorded:

Song	CS	DE	ES-LA	FR	HU	IT	PT-BR	UK
"Everyone is Special"								VO
"Go With the Status Quo"								VO
"East Side, West Side"								VO
"You Can Sing It"
"We're Together at School Again"								VO
"Stan's Song"
"You Gotta Do What You Wanna Do!"								VO

French

• A dialog from Daniel Tanner is heard at the start of the episode, explaining that he was sick the day before.

Portuguese (Brazil)

• All singing vocals to "Go With the Status Quo" are removed.

Spanish (Latin America)

• The third part of "Stan's Song" is replaced with the Spanish folk song "La Cucaracha".
• The background song of "We Will Rock You" is translated to Spanish via voice-over.

Ukrainian

• After Mr. Gueermo drags Bridon out of basketball training, his line of "Stupid-ass boy!" is muted.
• Cartman's line of "Shut up, Scott Malkinson" is included in his lisp imitation.