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• This is the second episode where Kyle says Cartman's first name.
• This is the first episode of Season Eighteen to not reference an earlier episode of the season.
• There is a brief signal loss effect in a long shot of South Park.
• Color swaps of Lannie, Beth, Billy Martin, Jenny Simons, and the boy with brown hair and red shirt are seen in the cafeteria.
• The episode mentions twenty-four references of being grounded. This total also eclipses both "The Ungroundable" and South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, with nine and thirteen references respectively.
• Clocks at the customer service center are not regulated.
• It is eventually revealed that all South Park characters are real-life characters, while the South Park we all watch is Stan's master level of virtual reality, which is represented in South Park animation style. After Stan gets out, he says that the graphics suck, mocking the show's own rudimentary animation style.
  • The boys are shown in live-action for the second time in this episode. The first one was the a live-action sequence with actors re-enacting the boys' boating experience in "I Should Have Never Gone Ziplining".

References to Popular Culture

• The title of this episode is a pun on the Indian recipe Vindaloo.
• This episode is based around the real virtual reality device Oculus Rift.
• Butters compares his rampage through town to the video game series Grand Theft Auto. This includes both hijacking the car and trying to beat up a hooker to get her money, both of which are actual elements of the gameplay in the GTA series.
• Steve mentions doing a "total recall" of the Oculus devices due to manufacturer's defect, this is a reference to the plot of the film Total Recall, and such a bad pun that Steve tells himself "fuck you".
• Cartman's suit and sunglasses while visiting Butters in the hospital references the characters of The Matrix film trilogy.

Continuity

• This is the second time Butters has touched Wendy's boobs, although this time it happened off-screen, the first time being in "Bebe's Boobs Destroy Society".
• This is the second time Butters has stood up against his parents grounding him, the first time being "The Ungroundable".
• Stephen first used his belt to beat Butters in "Jared Has Aides".

Goofs

• The live action Kenny's pants are brown, while the animated Kenny's are orange.
• The live-action Cartman's hat has no tassel.

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International Titles

Language	Title	Translation
Czech	Indická zpětná smyčka	Indian loopback
French	Réalité augmentée	Augmented reality
German	Die Hausarrest-Schleife	The house arrest loop
Hungarian	Vindahurka bünti	Vindaloop punishment
Italian	Castigo virtuale	Virtual punishment
Japanese	仮想現実のカレーループ (Kasō genjitsu no karērūpu)	Virtual reality curry loop
Polish	Szlaban na windiopętli	Barrier on the vindaloop