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• This is the only appearance of the Cotswolds family, with exception of Mark who makes cameos in later episodes.
• This is the final episode Mary Kay Bergman worked on. The episode was aired the day before her suicide.
• Tolkien Black and Bill Allen are not seen in the classroom in this episode. They reappear in the classroom in the next episode, though they would permanently be removed from the 3rd grade class scenes starting from "Mr. Hankey's Christmas Classics".
  • Tolkien and Bill's seats are replaced by Butters and Craig respectively.
• The title is a pun on the Hooked on Phonics spelling learning system.
• The word Kyle had to spell at the spelling bee (Krocsyldiphithic) is not an actual word.
• The shot of the kids running out to the playground is stock footage from "Mr. Hankey, the Christmas Poo".
• The name of the school dance is South Park Elementary Bay of Pigs Memorial Dance. It is named after an unsuccessful attempt by a CIA-trained force of Cuban exiles to invade southern Cuba, with support from US government armed forces, to overthrow the Cuban government of Fidel Castro. It was launched on April 17, 1961, and ended two days later.
• The flag of Slovenia appears on the back of Rebecca Cotswolds' bedroom door.
• The molecule hanging in Rebecca's room is ethanoic acid (C₂H₄O₂).
• This episode aired on Comedy Central uncensored in May 11, 2023.

References to Popular Culture

• The heavy metal band Dio performs its hit song "Holy Diver" during the school dance.
• When Kyle is talking to Rebecca outside her house about "flicker of light", this is a direct reference to the Star Trek episode "The Gamesters of Triskelion", in which Captain Kirk gives a similar speech to an equally sheltered Shahna.
• Cartman asking Mark if he is in a plastic hamster ball because has "John Travolta disease" is an implied reference to the 1977 TV movie The Boy in the Plastic Bubble.

Continuity

• Although Mark appears in a few episodes in a cameo role, Rebecca was not seen again, though in "Super Fun Time", there is a girl resembling Rebecca with the same hair but different clothes.
• Butters receives his first kiss from an out-of-control Rebecca Cotswolds, however, in "Butters' Bottom B****" the other boys tease him for never having kissed a girl. The boys may have forgot about this event, however, it is more likely that this is a continuity error or he did not kiss back.
• The instrumental version of Chef's song, "Stinky Britches", is played at the school dance before Dio performs.
• As this is an earlier episode, Butters has yet to be developed into his current persona, and as such is a bit out of character. Along with Craig, he is seen taking part in the bullying of Mark, demanding he leave his "hamster ball" as that part is "their part of the playground" and then taping him to a bench. He also says he would've "kicked Kyle's b**** ass too" upon seeing Mark do it. He is generally more mean-spirited in this episode and this may be because he doesn't want to be one of the few people not to pick on Mark and be singled out.
  • This is one of the few episodes where Butters uses explicit curse words.
• Cartman is revealed to be extremely poor at spelling, a fact that he once admitted in Season One episode "Tom's Rhinoplasty". However, in many other episodes Cartman does not seem to be troubled by this problem.

Goofs

• When Rebecca Cotswolds hits on Tolkien, and Red turns her head to glare at her, Clyde and Annie Knitts are shown without mouths. This is fixed in the HD version.
• When everyone spills onto the playground, Red is seen wearing Wendy's clothes.
• At the dance, Kelly is there with Kenny, although Kenny was dead at that point.
• In the first shot of the stage at the Spelling Bee, Mark is sitting in the chair beside Tolkien. In the next shot of the stage Mark is not in the seat.
• When Mayor McDaniels is talking before the spelling bee, she says that the spelling bee is between 12 of South Park Elementary's brightest spellers, but there are only 10 students from South Park Elementary in the spelling bee. The other two are Mark and Rebecca, who are homeschooled.
• In the HD version of the episode, Terrance Mephesto's hair is placed incorrectly on his head during the school dance.
• When Mark is slapping Kyle towards the end of the episode, Kyle says "ow!" without moving his mouth.
• When going to the playground, Red is seen wearing Wendy’s clothing.
• In the long shot of the kids at the playground, Butters can be seen standing next to Stan, Bebe, and Annie, but in the next shot, he disappears.
  • In the same long shot, Annie can be seen twice on the playground.
• In the scene immediately preceding the dance, where Craig, Stan, Butters, the other boys, as well as Jimbo, Randy and the boys' fathers are briefing each other on their plans to duct tape Mark and Mr. Cotswolds, respectively, to the flagpole, they both remark about the dance being "tomorrow night", despite the fact that a banner seen hung above the front doors of the school says the dance is "tonight".

Kenny's Death

• Kenny is beaten to death by the Fonics Monkey after he tries to take some of his food. Stan replies "Oh my God! Fonics Monkey killed Kenny!", while Eric responds, "You’re damn straight he did."

Dubbing Changes

International Titles

Language	Title	Translation
Czech	Pravopisná akustická opice	Spelling acoustic monkey
Finnish	Sikojenlahden muistotanssiaiset	Bay of Pigs memorial dance
French	Les Comptines du singe batteur	Rhymes of the drumming monkey
German	Vorsicht vor dem wahren Leben	Beware of real life
Hungarian	Ritmikus csimpifon	Rhythmic chimp
Italian	Scimmia tu che scimmio anch'io
Japanese	おサルのスペリング講座 (O saru no superingu kōza)	Monkey spelling course
Polish	Małpia mnemofonotechnika	Monkey mnemonics
Portuguese (Brazil)	Viciado em fonética de macaco	Addicted to Monkey Phonics
Russian	Увлекательная фонетика с обезьянкой (Uvlekatel'naya fonetika s obez'yankoy)	Fascinating phonetics with a monkey
Spanish (Latin America)	Fonética de monos	Monkey Fonics
Spanish (Spain)	Conectado al mono de fonética	Connected to Monkey Phonics
Ukrainian	Підсядь на мавпячу акустику (Pidsyadʹ na mavpyachu akustyku)	Tune in to the monkey acoustics

Common

• The background vocals from Cartman's television are removed in the Hungarian and Mandarin Chinese dubs.

Czech

• The word assigned to Cartman at the Spelling Bee is changed to pes ("dog").

French

• The word assigned to Cartman at the Spelling Bee is changed to gateau ("cake").

German

• When using "litoral" in a sentence, Mayor McDaniels quotes the state of Hawaii instead of Michigan.

Hungarian

• The word assigned to Mark at the Spelling Bee is changed to numizmatika ("numismatics"). The sentence is provided as "Numismatics is the study of coins."
• The word assigned to Rebecca at the Spelling Bee is changed to ékszerest ("jeweler"). The sentence is provided as "The robber shoved the jeweler to the ground and tied her up."
• The word assigned to Kyle at the Spelling Bee is changed to pirográfia ("pyrography"). The definition, on the other hand, is given as "an enhanced CT scan of the renal pelvis".

Italian (2nd)

• The word assigned to Mark at the Spelling Bee is changed to trascuratezza ("careless"). The sentence is provided as Mio fratello ha lavorato male a con troppa trascuratezza ("My brother works bad and is too careless").
• The word assigned to Rebecca at the Spelling Bee is changed to scoglio ("rock"). The sentence is provided as Mentre era in mare il peschereccio di Gary, e urto contro uno scoglio ("While Gary's fishing boat was at the sea, it hit a rock").

Japanese

• No specific contact number is provided if the monkey in the "Hooked On Monkey Fonics" set is found dead.

Mandarin Chinese

• Despite having no equivalent competition in the Chinese language, the dubbing tweaks the Spelling Bee where participants must use Bopomofo to recite Chinese words. The words assigned to each of the participant are as follows, with the sentences given referencing various Taiwanese politics:
  • Mark: 肆無忌憚 (Sì wú jì dàn, "Unscrupulous"). Sentence: "Despite support from Lee Teng-hui, Su Chih-cheng was branded as unscrupulous."
  • Cartman: 無知 (Wú zhī, "Ignorance")
  • Rebecca: 海底撈針 (Hǎi dǐ lāo zhēn, "Look for a needle in the haystack"). Sentence: "There is an increasing number of senior officials found in connection with the Yin Ching-feng case. Solving the case is like looking for a needle in the haystack." Yin Ching-feng was one of the several people involved in the purchase of six La Fayette-class frigates for the Taiwanese Navy. The circumstances surrounding his death in 1993 eventually became a contributory factor to a scandal over said frigates.
  • Kyle: 分道揚鑣 (Fēn dào yáng biāo, "Part ways"). Sentence: "In the end, Chen Shui-bian and Annette Lu both parted ways."
• The words read out during the Hooked On Monkey Fonics lesson are changed to ㄘㄠˋ (cào) and ㄍㄢˋ (gàn). Both words sound like "操" and "幹", synonymous words for "fuck".
• Amongs the toys which Cartman guesses for his new gift, the rocket racer is changed to a toy figurine of the Ambassador Magma, while the police power chopper is changed to a model of the Air Force One.
• The historical questions which Garrison lays out for the class are replaced with political ones, referencing Taiwanese current affairs at the time of airing.
• Mark is given the nickname "莊孝維" (Zhuāng xiào wéi), a Taiwanese colloquial term which translates to the verb "pretending to be stupid".
• The town bar is given the name "劈踢踢酒吧" (Pī tī tī jiǔbā), parodying the PTT Bulletin Board System.
• While at the town bar, Mr. Cotswolds reveals that he prefers a sour plum drink instead of wine coolers.
• The Bay of Pigs Memorial Dance is renamed to "紳士淑女之夜" (Shēnshì shūnǚ zhī yè, lit. "Gentlemen and Ladies' Night")
• Cartman responds to Kenny's death with "you bastard", thereby completing the catchphrase set.
• The act of duct-taping one onto a flagpole is rewritten to one that involves hanging the victim onto the flagpole by the penis. It is named "阿樹彈".

Spanish (Latin America)

• In the Hooked On Monkey Fonics lesson, the word "chalk" is changed to chaqueta ("jacket").

Ukrainian

• The word assigned to Rebecca at the Spelling Bee is changed to акведук (akveduk, "aqueduct").
• The muffling effects from Mark in the giant hamster ball are not present.