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Trivia

• Although he was referred to by name whilst off-screen in "Fishsticks", this episode confirms Kevin's last name is Stoley.
• Gordon Stoltski, the ginger kid who does the morning announcements, makes an appearance at the pirate meeting. Previously, he was one of Cartman's lieutenants in "Ginger Kids", and was later murdered in "Dances with Smurfs".
• A new kindergarten teacher is shown after Ms. Stevenson's death in "Miss Teacher Bangs a Boy". The new teacher has brown hair and wears a long purple skirt with a yellow top.
• With Cartman absent from class, the Boy with Red Shirt and Blue Pants, sits in his usual spot. His real name is unknown and yet to be revealed.
• Kenny's appearances are notably reduced overall after early seasons and this episode is only seen briefly in the background of Mr. Garrison's class.
• The French schooner crew members are portrayed as pretentious cowards, a common American and British stereotype of the French, based on the country's surrender during World War II. This was also referenced in "Make Love, Not Warcraft".
• The box of ammo in the pirates' quarters is a .303 ball, this is only used for the British Lee-Enfield rifle.
• As the French captain gives in to the pirates' demands, the subtitles read "We are going to give you what you want". However, from the French dialog "Nous avons reçu l'ordre des Nations unies de vous donner ce que vous voulez", it is implied that the crew was instructed by the United Nations to do so.

References to Popular Culture

• The theme of this episode revolves around the contemporary media attention placed on the pirate attacks in the waters surrounding, and in the country of Somalia.
  • The episode was also inspired by the hijack of the Maersk Alabama cargo ship by Somalian pirates. According to the audio commentary, the episode was well into production as the hijacking was playing out but was held back in case the captured Captain Richard Phillips was killed. "Pinewood Derby", which had been on hold, would instead be finished and aired for that week's slot.
  • The troop of pirates being shot dead by navy snipers with the boys' unharmed mimics the climax of the actual incident when, within seconds of the pirates shooting Richard Phillips, the group of pirates that held him on a lifeboat were all shot dead rapidly and without physical injury to Phillips by Navy SEAL Snipers.
• The title of the episode, which refers to Cartman, is a rewording of the name of the infamous English pirate, Blackbeard.
• The scene which shows the boys traveling to Mogadishu is a parody and reference to the classic "traveling map" scenes from the Indiana Jones series of films.
• The pirates' theme played in the episode takes musical cues from the Pirates of the Caribbean theme.
• Les Misérables, a play that Matt Stone and Trey Parker are fans of, is referenced when Ike writes: "And if one more person talked to me about that Susan Boyle performance in Les Misérables, I was going to puke my balls out through my mouth."
  • Susan Boyle is a Scottish singer who became well known at the time of the episode's airing, for her performance of the song "I Dreamed a Dream", from Les Misérables, on the British talent show Britain's Got Talent.
  • South Park's reference to Boyle received considerable media coverage in the British press.
• When they decide to become pirates, Ike can be seen to be wearing a similar outfit to Captain Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean.
  • Cartman is wearing a red Pirate Captain's Coat and a Hook Hand, similar to that worn by Captain James Hook from Peter Pan animated film.
• Many times throughout the episode, Cartman can be heard imitating Robert Newton's way of speaking, who played Long John Silver in the film Treasure Island.
• Kevin wields a toy lightsaber, a weapon from the Star Wars series of films. Additionally, in the sixth-season episode, "The Return of the Fellowship of the Ring to the Two Towers", he was dressed as a Stormtrooper, while the rest of the boys were in Lord of the Rings attire.

Goofs

• Cartman tells Butters to move the ship "hard to port", further claiming that port means right. In reality, the port is the naval term for left, and starboard is the term for right.
• List of errors on Cartman's world map:
  • The former Yugoslav states are all shown in the same color shade, marked with thin border lines to indicate that they were still drawn as constituent countries within Yugoslavia. In addition, there are no borders marked for Kosovo, which declared independence from Serbia in 2008.
  • The borders of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia are missing.
  • The map was abruptly cut off to the east, partially showing Oman and Iran.
• In the Latin American Spanish dub, Cartman's line "Du-dude! You're doing it all wrong! Let me handle this. Alright ya scalliwags! Surrender your plunder and let me send my shot across your bow!" is completely silent.

Deleted Scene

• Cartman reads a book about the regions of East Somalia and encounters Kyle in the library also reading about Somalia. Kyle then tries to falsely convince Cartman not to go to Mogadishu since it's boring to be a pirate there until Cartman finds out he just wants to ruin his plans. He then cackles at him due to thinking that Kyle would want to go instead of him and tells him that he'll be jealous of him going. Kyle then leaves the library while wiping his hands along that his idea didn't work.

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International Titles

Language	Title	Translation
Czech	Sádlovous	Fatbeard
French	Barbobèse	Fatbeard
German	Käpt'n Fettbart	Captain Fatbeard
Hungarian	Zsírszakáll	Fatbeard
Italian	Barbagrassa	Fatbeard
Latvian	Resnbārdis	Fatbeard
Polish	Grubobrody	Fatbeard
Portuguese (Brazil)	O Barba Gorda	The Fatbeard
Russian	Жирная Борода (Zhirnaya Boroda)	Fatbeard
Spanish (Latin America)	Barbagorda	Fatbeard
Ukrainian	Жирна Борода (Zhyrna Boroda)	Fatbeard

German

• Ike cites several people talking with him about one of Paul Potts' commercials instead of Susan Boyle as one of the reasons he left for Somalia.

Spanish (Latin America)

• All Arabic and French dialogs are translated into Spanish.

Ukrainian

• All Arabic and French dialogs, as well as the "Somalian Pirates We" song (except the starting verse), adopt voiceover instead of being dubbed or retained from the English version.
• The bullhorn sound effects from Cartman are not present.