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• This episode features a unique opening sequence in which the boys do not appear on the bus. They are replaced by The Goth Kids, singing altered lyrics to a goth version of the theme song.
  • The boys can be seen in the distance at the end of the intro.
• The 3D theme song that has been used since "Let Go, Let Gov" is animated in 2D for this episode. As a result, the last shot of the intro clears up many characters that were previously hard to see, including Starvin' Marvin and the parents of Wendy, Clyde, Jimmy, Bebe, as well as Thomas Turner, Laura Tucker, and Mrs. Tweak.
  • Mintberry Crunch, Barbra Streisand, the blimp, and the UFO are removed from the distance.
• Kyle, Stan, and Kenny do not have any speaking lines in this episode and just briefly appear in a scene at the school gym. This is one of the 9 episodes where Cartman does not appear (outside of the changed intro).
• The scene between Henrietta and her parents was originally longer and had slightly different dialogue, as seen in the promo clip.
• The first "Goth Kids" episode, "Raisins", aired in 2003. The second "Goth Kids" episode, "The Ungroundable", aired in 2008. This episode, the third "Goth Kids" episode, aired in 2013. This means each "Goth Kids" episode aired 5 years (or close to that) after the previous one.
• This episode aired a week after it was supposed to due to a power outage at South Park Studios which caused the staff to miss the deadline for delivering the episode to Comedy Central. This is the first time this has happened in the show's history. In its place, a repeat of "Scott Tenorman Must Die" was aired with live tweets accompanying it.

References to Popular Culture

• The black "vamp" guy is wearing a Twilight t-shirt.
• Edgar Allan Poe was a 19th-century poet and horror, fiction writer.
• The song that is playing when Michael enters Henrietta's room after she returns from camp is "Seven" by Sunny Day Real Estate, taken from their 1994 debut album Diary.
• The head vamp kid, Vampir, quotes Lando Calrissian's line "You've got a lot of nerve coming here" when confronting Pete at the vamps meeting. This is from the 1980 film Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back.
• Pete himself theorizes at one point in the diner that the plants are similar to the pods from Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
• The plot of plants as sentient beings, attempting to take over the world, is similar to the novel and 1962 movie The Day of the Triffids.
• The "Yes, I Was Scared!" TV show is a reference to the real-life TV show Scare Tactics which used the same line of "Are you scared!?" before revealing it was all a prank.
• One of the group meetings was the South Park Glee Club.
• There are multiple "emo" band posters in Henrietta's room which are parodies of real bands:
  • C&C - Coheed and Cambria.
  • Hacienda Heights - Hawthorne Heights.
  • Bail Out Boy - Fall Out Boy.
  • Zaozin - Saosin's 2006 album Saosin.
  • Tommy Ate Earth - Jimmy Eat World's 2013 album Damage.
  • Riot! at the Dancehall - Panic! at the Disco.
  • My Medical Relationship - My Chemical Romance's 2004 album Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge.
  • The poster behind the door is Sunny Day Real Estate's 1995 self-titled second album which is sometimes referred to as the "Pink Album" due to its distinctive color.

Continuity

• The other three goth kids' names are finally revealed in this episode to be Michael, Pete, and Firkle.
• This episode marks the third time that a deceased person is summoned. The first time was in "Hell on Earth 2006" and the second time was in "Reverse Cowgirl".

Goofs

• When the voice-first asks if the gardener is scared, he is referred to as "Harold", but when the host of Yes, I Was Scared! asks him if he knew that the gardener job at a camp for troubled teens was a setup, he refers to the gardener as "Howard".

Deleted Scene

Pete and Firkle find Edgar Allan Poe in a booth in Village Inn. They try to make him help take out the camp with them, but Poe refuses and excuses him for being too anxious. Pete and Firkle want him to stop being down too much, so they tell him the better things to live for. Firkle then forces Poe to help them because they summoned him for that reason, Poe finally gets up.

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International Titles

Language	Title	Translation
Czech	Gotikové: Úsvit pozérů	Goth: Dawn of the Posers
French	Les Gothiques 3 : L'Aurore des frimeurs	Goth Kids 3: Dawn of the Posers
German	Goth Kids 3	Goth Kids 3
Hungarian	Pozőrök hajnala	Dawn of the Posers
Italian	L'alba dei poser	Dawn of the Posers
Japanese	ゴスとエモ (Gosu to emo)	Goths and emos
Polish	Świt pozerów	Dawn of the Posers