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The French newspaper featuring the picture of Cartman and the Cow translates to "A young chubby boy from Colorado, United States, found a ginger cow Sunday. He was walking through a pasture when he stumbled upon it. Authorities are perplexed about who owns it or where it came from. All the town of South Park is astonished with the discovery. More news after the break."
The website irnnews.ir, appearing on the screen, is a parody of the original iribnews.ir website.
The Persian news anchor seems to be an animated version of Reza Hosseinzaadeh, an actual news anchor on IRIB's Channel 1.
One of the Japanese news anchors commits suicide by splitting his guts open and having a co-worker decapitate him. This is known as Seppuku, a Japanese ritual of committing suicide by splitting one's stomach open and ripping the organs, and (depending on the choice of the person committing suicide) can involve decapitation.
On the Japanese news program, the Japanese text reads "NHK Sekai no Nyuusu" or NHK World News. NHK (Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai) is the national public broadcasting organization of Japan.
The reports from the news anchor covers news that are not related to the ginger cow.
The rabbis speak English, yet Mr. Mackey and Principal Victoria think they are speaking Hebrew.
Cartman refers to the ginger cow with male pronouns but also makes a joke about it making ginger cheese, showing that Cartman is unaware that only female mammals can produce milk.

References to Popular Culture[]

The red heifer is part of real religious prophecy. Some believe that the sacrifice of a red heifer will bring about the inauguration of the Third Temple and the end times.
The rock band Van Halen played to an audience in Jerusalem, Israel. Songs heard were "Ain't Talkin' 'bout Love" and "Hot for Teacher".
- In the creator commentary, Trey and Matt mention that they were surprised that they were able to license both songs for the episode, as it usually takes months to clear and it was quite expensive to do so.
Van Halen vocalist David Lee Roth stopped by the South Park Studios after calling Trey Parker for advice and the visit inspired his inclusion into this episode.
Kyle compares his eating Cartman's farts to Ghandi, referring to the Indian civil rights activist who was known for employing nonviolent techniques in hopes of bringing peace and change to the country and world.

Continuity[]

Cartman's hatred towards gingers returns from "Ginger Kids", "201", and South Park: Tenorman's Revenge.
The Airport Hilton returns, from "Ginger Kids", "Miss Teacher Bangs a Boy", "Tonsil Trouble", "The Coon", and "200".
Cartman still refuses to acknowledge he has a small penis as he did in "T.M.I.".
Kyle is the third character to be referred to as "Fart Boy". The first was Pip Pirrip in "Damien", and the second was Damien Thorn briefly during the same episode.

Goofs[]

The French newspaper article about Cartman finding the ginger cow is poorly translated. Most notably, there are no accents used, and gingembre is used, a word which refers to the spice ginger. Red hair is called rousse in French.
While Al Aziz seems to be a parody of the Aljazeera Network (a Qatari broadcaster), the staff speak Persian and the next scene jumps to what appears to be a parody of Channel 4, one of the 16 national channels of the official Iranian broadcaster, IRIB.
The subtitles on South Park Studios' website labels dialogs from the Al Aziz workers as "Speaking Arabic", despite them speaking Persian.
NHK News usually refers to news coverage of events outside of Japan as 国際ニュース(Kokusai nyuusu or "International News") instead of 世界のニュース (Sekai no nyuusu or "World News").

Deleted Scene[]

Dr. Doctor hears from Stan and Kenny that their friend is obsessed with eating farts, it all happened when the news came at the same time. He tells them to watch him over from getting sulfur poisoning, with Stan and Kenny looking surprised. He then explains why they are unhealthy, and that they can damage the brain.

Dubbing Changes[]

International Titles[]

Language	Title	Translation
Czech	Zrzavá kráva	Ginger Cow
French	Vache rouquemoute	Ginger Cow
German	Ginger Kuh	Ginger Cow
Hungarian	Vörheny tehén	Ginger Cow
Italian	La mucca rossa	Ginger Cow
Japanese	赤毛の牛 (Akage no ushi)	Ginger Cow
Polish	Ryża krowa	Ginger Cow
Portuguese (Brazil)	Vaca ruiva	Ginger Cow
Spanish (Latin America)	Vaca pelirroja	Ginger Cow

French[]

In Kyle's insult towards his mother, the portion of "her tits belonged in a morgue" is changed to "you should get your tits stuffed".

German[]

At the school hallway, Kyle's lines of "Yummy yummy yummy I want/can I please have Cartman's farts in my tummy" are changed to "There is nothing tastier than Cartman's farts in the face".
The crowd's chants of "Chakam balada" are muted.