I Should Have Never Gone Ziplining/Trivia

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• Images of the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion are seen during Kyle's flashbacks about "how lame shuttles can be".
• The live action scene was filmed at Marina Del Rey harbor in Los Angeles.
• The actors portraying the boys during the live-action re-enactments are: Michael Zazarino as Stan Marsh, Brandon Hardesty as Eric Cartman, Eli Bildner as Kyle Broflovski, and Josh Beren as Kenny McCormick.
• Both this episode and "Faith Hilling" featured live action scenes this season.
• The boys are the only recurring characters that have speaking roles.
• This is the second episode with a documentary theme. The first episode was "Crippled Summer."`
• This episode is the second to reference programs on Animal Planet, the first being "Jewpacabra".
• During the live-action reenactment, the actors portraying Kenny and Kyle have brown hair and the actor portraying Cartman has the wrong colored shirt. These inconsistencies are a parody of reality show reenactments, which lack detail and are overdramatized.

References to Pop Culture

• The entire episode and its title parodies I Shouldn’t Be Alive.
  • Eric Meyers is credited as the narrator of "I Should Have Never Gone Ziplining". He is the narrator of the real show I Shouldn’t Be Alive.
• The zip-line premise may have been inspired by a zip-line team holding demonstrations at Super Bowl XLVI.^{[citation needed]}
• Cartman drinking Mountain Dew is a reference to the ad campaign promoting it as an extreme sports beverage.

Continuity

• During the closing montage it was mentioned that Stan made an awareness campaign so successful that he ended up "Jackin' it in San Diego" for a second time. The first incident occurred in "Butterballs".
• Kenny's death in this episode marks the only of the season.
• This episode marks the first appearance of Mr. Hankey since the "200" and "201" arc. However, he doesn't speak with his real voice in this episode and is only shown in pictures and as real-life feces.
• Cartman insults Kyle for being Jewish, which indicates his attitude towards Judaism has reverted since "Jewpacabra".