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The video sabotage scene, where the Thompsons, Kevin and Nurse Gollum can be seen.

• This is the first episode to have Jessica Makinson as part of the voice cast.
• This is the first time Cartman's mother lies to get him onto/into something.
• The Thompsons, Kevin, Nurse Gollum, and Lisa Cartman can be seen in the crowd during the strike.
• This episode features a completely new opening sequence. It replaces the one used since "Fourth Grade". It features the boys being made out of construction paper while clips are shown. With Kenny being "dead," Timmy replaces him and sings his name repeatedly followed by "Livin' a lie!". The new theme is a more country-like version. Butters holds "The Butters Show" sign over the "South Park" sign at the end.
• The Star Trek Nerds are shown to have some level makeup skills when they make Butters' Chin Balls.
• There is an actual disease that causes rapid aging, it is called progeria, though this is very rare.
• The threat made to Butters about "Lobster Boy" is a reference to Grady Stiles, a real-life person whose family hired a hit-man for $1500 and had him murdered as revenge for the abuse he caused them.

References to Popular Culture

• The Geeks who make Butters' fake balls are a parody of The Lone Gunmen from The X-Files. They also appeared in the episode "Fourth Grade".
• The scene where a man tells Maury that "the ratings have just started to plummet" is a play on the original Star Trek series, where crew members often viewed computer displays in such a way. The man also bears an uncanny resemblance to Leonard Nimoy.
• When Cartman appears on The Maury Povich Show and is arguing with the other out-of-control girl about who is worse than the other, he states he "ran for Congress, won, and then had sex with an intern, killed her, and hid her body." This is a reference to the Gary Condit scandal.
• In the circle of picketers, there is a miniature Incredible Hulk walking but not holding a sign.
• When Cartman is trying to convince his mother to go on the Maury Povich Show with him, he says "I have such a pretty mother, such a wonderful mother..." These quotes and this tone were often used by Rhoda, the sadistic little girl in The Bad Seed to win favor from her mother.
• In the crowd of strikers, there are several characters resembling people with deformities from real life and/or popular cultures.
  • In the middle, there a man that looks like Roy L. "Rocky" Dennis, the subject of the 1985 movie Mask starring Eric Stoltz.
  • At the top, there is a deformed man in a football jersey who looks remarkably like Sloth from The Goonies.
  • Near Nurse Gollum, there is a man that looks similar to Joseph Merrick, who was known by his stage name as The Elephant Man.
  • To the right of Butters are two people who appear to suffer from Microcephaly. This term has been referred to by freak shows as "Pinheads," most notably in the 1932 film, Freaks.
• The "True Freak Label" video sabotage that the freaks make Butters star in is a shot-by-shot parody of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union commercial from the 70s, which showed the workers singing a song known as "Look for the Union Label".
• The "out-of-control teens" subject on Maury Povich is a direct parody of the very same subject and the way it is treated on Povich's show, and another morning/afternoon talk shows such as Jenny Jones.
• Vanity's line "You ain't bad! You ain't nothing!" comes from the full-length music video of Michael Jackson's "Bad".
• Cartman boasts that he "digitally put Jabba the Hutt back into the original Star Wars movie!" while on The Maury Povich Show. This is a reference to the special edition of Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope which included various edits, due to improvements in technology, to fit George Lucas's "original vision" of the film. One of the new edits includes a scene with Han Solo talking to a CGI version of Jabba the Hutt, who originally did not appear in the series until Return of the Jedi.

Continuity

• When Cartman and his Mother are on the Maury Povich Show, he mimics what the teenage girl from "Clubhouses" says, "Yeah, it's my body. My mom always gives me shit for smoking, but it's my body. I should be able to do whatever I want with it."
• In Butters' bedroom, two Chinpokomon toys can be seen.
• On the door of the Star Trek dork's room is a poster of the alien that appeared at the beginning of the episode "Spookyfish".
• Eric's aunt, Lisa Cartman, makes an appearance with the other freaks, here she had large breasts and her head was turned down.
• When Butters attempts to play as Kenny McCormick, who died in the Season Five episode, "Kenny Dies".

Goofs

• The Man With No Face said that he made his sixth appearance on TV. However, later he said that he appeared on Oprah twice, Jenny Jones once, and Sally Jessie five times.
• The large-breasted woman in the teal dress first appears to be a normal woman with very large breasts when she is first shown at the rally. However, in the "True Freak Label" video, her face becomes upside-down, most likely being the actual cause of her participation in the rally.
• When the freak union arrives at Butters' house, Man with Terrible Skin Condition can briefly be seen. He is not present in any other shot in this scene.

Dubbing Changes

International Titles

Language	Title	Translation
Czech	Stávka postižených	Strike of the disabled
Finnish	Friikki show	Freak show
French	Couillo-mentonite	Chinball
German	Freakshow	Freakshow
Hungarian	Torzszülöttek sztrájkja	Strike of deformed babies
Italian	Lo sciopero degli strambi	The strike of the weirdos
Japanese	あごちんボール症候群 (Ago-chin bōru shōkōgun)	Chinball Syndrome
Korean	괴물 쇼 (Goemul syo)	Freak show
Polish	Strajk cudaków	Freak strike
Portuguese (Brazil)	Greve anormal	Abnormal strike
Russian	Забастовка уродов (Zabastovka urodov)	Freak strike
Spanish (Latin America)	Huelga de Freaks	Freak Strike
Spanish (Spain)	Huelga de Monstruos	Monster Strike
Ukrainian	Страйк потвор (Strayk potvor)	Monster strike

Common

• In the Maury Povich show, Vanity claims she had helped in other criminal acts over a drive-by shooting:
  • French: Robbery
  • Mandarin Chinese: Driving without a license
• In the Brazilian Portuguese and European Spanish dubs, Cartman's claim of roaming with 12 gangs specifies "murder out of hate/racism" as one of the crimes they would commit.

Czech

• The entire interviews with Damla Jones and Butters at the Maury Povich show are played with broadcasting sound effects.

Mandarin Chinese

• Maury Povich is dubbed as Taiwanese television host Kevin Tsai.
• Damla Jones is dubbed as Taiwanese television personality Dee Hsu, better known by her nickname "Little S".
• The prize which Damla receives from the Maury Povich Show are vouchers for body slimming treatments, which is seen as ironic given her physical appearance.
• The AVID cut of Star Wars given to the Star Trek nerds is said to feature Japanese pornographic idol Azumi Kawashima.
• The flight number announced at the Denver Airport is changed to Uni Air Flight 543.
• The prize which Butters receives is a return trip to Tokyo Disneyland. The flight for the trip is labelled "CI611", referencing China Airlines Flight 611 that crashed on May 25, 2002.
• The taunt of putting Jabba the Hutt into the Star Wars movie by Cartman is replaced with drink driving without a license, in an attempt to counter Vanity.

Ukrainian

• In Vanity and Cartman's first altercation, the respective portions of "shooting heroin in the school bathroom" and "killing an intern" are removed and replaced with the portion of "roaming with gangs". In their place, Vanity first intimidates Cartman with "You're not cool at all! You're a fat piece of shit!", while Cartman responds with "I'm uncontrollable, shut the fuck up, b****."