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• In the jail cell, Marvin Marsh is able to stand and walk unaided. He was also able to do this in "Quintuplets 2000".
• It is possible that sometimes in episodes, the writers draw one-time characters to resemble adult versions of the boys and then kill them off. In this episode, the man who is fishing and then killed by elderly drivers looks like an adult version of Kyle. He has red, curly hair that looks like Kyle's afro, and he also is wearing an orange and green color scheme that is similar to Kyle's clothing. In the news report, his name is revealed to be Carl Zorn, a name that sounds similar to Kyle. A similar phenomenon is seen in "Free Willzyx" with a truck driver who strongly resembles Stan.
• This episode mocks the AARP for their staunch opposition of re-testing elderly drivers.

References to Popular Culture

• The topical reference of this show is a fatal incident at the Santa Monica Farmers market of July 2003 where the elderly driver, George Weller, killed ten people and injured many more by accelerating through the closed road. The car Weller drove, a Buick LeSabre from 1992, is also featured in the episode, as the car which killed a man who was fishing when the car was driven off a bridge. This scene also parodies Jaws, using the theme music from the movie.
• The restaurant that all the elderly eat at is named Country Kitchen Buffet, which is a combination of the names of two similar restaurants; Country Kitchen Restaurants and Old Country Buffet.
• The title of this episode and many of its scenes are a parody of the 1984 film, Red Dawn. Specific examples include:
  • The AARP troops parachuting into the town while Mr. Garrison lectures his class on Genghis Khan and sees them outside the window parodies the beginning of the film, when the teacher discusses Genghis Khan as the Soviet paratroopers land in front of the school.
  • Many of the townspeople rounded up and held inside a prison camp, with Stan's dad talking to the boys through the fence and shouting "Avenge me!" references Tom Eckert telling his sons to escape to the forest and avenge him after they found him in a re-education camp with the rest of the townspeople.
  • Red Dawn also took place in Colorado, specifically in the small town of Calumet.
• The sequence where a convoy of elderly drivers are seen approaching (with Randy shouting for the boys to get off the road) references a sequence in John Carpenter's 1983 film adaptation of Stephen King's Christine, with similar staging and music to this scene where Christine chases a victim at a slow pace before running him down.
• Similarly, another scene in which multiple vehicles destroy the walls of an abandoned house that Randy and the boys were hiding in, and then chase them up the stairs, also comes from Christine, during the scene where she tracks down and murders Will Darnell. However, this scene does not take place in the John Carpenter film, but only in the original novel, and the house in question is Darnell's own.
• The scene where Randy runs across the field to warn the boys is very similar to Lancelot's charge of the Swamp Castle in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
• Stan's grandfather states that he is "mad as hell", which is a reference to the 1976 movie Network.

Continuity

• The line "Mostly hippies go to farmer's markets. Mostly" harkens back to "Cat Orgy" and the film Aliens.
• Randy's line, "That's our Grandpa" and the ensuing laughter echoes Stan's line in "Death", "That's my silly grampa". After that line, the family laughs.
• In the news theme, there are clips from: "Two Guys Naked in a Hot Tub", "The Tooth Fairy Tats 2000", "The Simpsons Already Did It", "A Ladder to Heaven", "Red Man's Greed", and "Christian Rock Hard".
• The Buick driven by the senior citizens in the lake scene is exactly like the one driven by the visitors in "Cancelled" and the one driven by Ted in "Night of the Living Homeless".
• Mrs. Wyland, the pink-haired old woman who was given a gun while lying in a hospital bed, is later seen standing at the South Park sign behind some sandbags. There, she has her IV unit with her and wears a blue dress with white flowers instead of her hospital gown.

Goofs

• Randy and Sharon both called Marvin Marsh "dad", even though Randy is Marvin's birth son. Sharon, however, could be speaking in the sense that Marvin is her father-in-law.
• In the lake scene when the elderly couple driving and in Cartman's fictional scenario, the Country Kitchen Buffet is located on an open road without any other buildings around it. However, on the map and in the final scenes, Country Kitchen Buffet is across the street from many buildings, including Tom's Rhinoplasty.
• When the AARP paratroopers land outside South Park Elementary, an old woman in a purple dress smacks Mr. Garrison with a gun. In the nursing home, however, the same old woman is seen among the residents when the AARP enters. This is likely a continuity error due to the animators using the same background character in different scenes.
• When Larry goes to the driver's center to give in his license, he states that he never had an accident (despite him driving into a house). Whether this was simply a lie, he forgot about it, if it was a different man, or just an error is unknown.
• When the boys leave Stan's house after "the night of horror", the car is not seen. Then it spontaneously appears with Grandpa Marsh in it when he honks it. The amount of time is not nearly enough time for it to emerge from the garage.

Dubbing Changes

International Titles

Language	Title	Translation
Czech	Šedivý úsvit	Grey dawn
French	Rencontre du troisième âge	Encounter of the Third Age
German	Revolution der alten Säcke	Revolution of Old Geezers
Hungarian	Vének támadása	Attack of the elders
Italian	Alba grigia	Grey Dawn
Japanese	自由の国のシルバー暴走族 (Jiyū no kuni no shirubā bōzōzoku)	The Land of the Free's Silver Bōsōzoku
Polish	Siwy świt	Grey Dawn
Portuguese	Aurora cinza	Grey Dawn
Spanish (Latin America)	Amanecer Gris	Grey Dawn
Spanish (Spain)

French

• When Randy realizes that the elderly would be driving home after their meeting at the community center, both Sharon and Randy can be heard calling "Oh My God!", instead of only Randy.

Mandarin Chinese

• The Park County Community Center is renamed to "老人育樂中心" (Pinyin: Lǎorén yù lè zhōngxīn, lit. Elderly Recreational Center). This is inconsistent with all other dubbed episodes where the name had been directly translated.
• The elderly people's meeting at the community center is named "老人當自強" (Lǎorén dāng zìqiáng). This parodies "男兒當自強" (Nán'ér dāng zìqiáng), a popular Cantonese song that served as the theme song for the 1991 Hong Kong film Once Upon a Time in China.
• Before taking a ride on Marvin's vehicle, Cartman includes Buddhism and Islam in his prayer.

Portuguese (Brazil)

• All names mentioned in the first news report are changed to the following:
  • Carl Zorn: Changed to Silvério Silva
  • Pete and Lydia Malman: Changed to Evaldo and Norma Quadros
  • Paul Thom: Changed to José Rubens

Ukrainian

• In the news report of the damage by the elderly drivers, the reporter makes an additional comment on the $3 million damage: "А це погодьтеся чи маленька сума?" (A tse pohodʹtesya chy malenʹka suma, "And this is a small amount, don't you think so?").
• All of Randy's screams to the boys playing street hockey maintain the same audible volume.