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During the time when this episode released, Minecraft was at the release of the 1.6 update, ie the horse update.
Wendy's presentation is about refugees from Syria, a country that has been going through a civil war. This was a real-life current event at the time of the episode.
Peter Mullen was formerly known as Leroy Jenkins.
It is still unknown as to who vandalized the Marsh's next-door neighbor's yard since Stephen Stotch was caught in a castle he built, and Randy was the neighbor.
This episode spoofs widespread parental concern that children copy what they see on television and/or video games, with the roles being reversed.
This episode features Tweek's first speaking role since "Eat, Pray, Queef". This is also his longest gap of being silent, at four seasons.
- He later speaks in "Black Friday" and "The Hobbit", making Season Seventeen the season where Tweek has the most speaking appearances, aside from his brief role as the "fourth friend" in Season Six.
In the promo for this episode, Corey Lanskin says "Whoever told ya I teach Minecraft to adults was pulling your wiener." In the final cut of the episode, this has been replaced with "Fuck off!"^[1]
Tolkien Black is not seen in Mr. Garrison's classroom nor anywhere else in this episode.

References to Popular Culture[]

There is a running gag throughout the episode of Cartman booing Wendy every time she attempts to voice her opinion. This was inspired by a YouTube video from 2009,^[2] in which a mayoral candidate for Toledo named Ben Konop is lazily heckled by a single man at a press conference.
Randy Marsh has a tantrum and wishes Jaden Smith was his son so he could do whatever he wanted. Jaden is the son of actor-rapper Will Smith, and was last seen in the episode, "Here Comes the Neighborhood". The name drop was a reference to a Jaden Smith tweet proclaiming "If everybody in the world dropped out of school we would have a more intelligent society."^[3]
The Get Cable Company is a satire of real-life cable service provider Time Warner, and their company logo looks similar to Ubisoft's 2003-2017 logo, which would later acquire the video game rights to South Park after THQ's bankruptcy in 2013.
While teaching Minecraft to the adults, Corey Lanskin imitates a British cockney accent and parodies the behavior and speech pattern of actor Michael Caine, famous for portraying cockney gangsters.
Several real shows are parodied and are portrayed as ‘murder porn’ in the episode:
- Cold Case Files
- Deadly Affairs
- Southern Fried Homicide^[4]
- On the Case with Paula Zahn
- Who the (Bleep) Did I Marry?
- True Crime with Aphrodite Jones
Fake 'murder porn' shows include:
- Sexy Betrayals
- Hot Load Case Files
- Seductive Homicides
- Marital Murder Mayhem
- Sinful Secrets (represents real show Sins and Secrets)
- Dateline Murder (represents real show Dateline NBC)

Goofs[]

The episode contains multiple Minecraft errors:
- When Butters is telling the fourth graders about how his father killed his mother in the game, he says that Stephen was harvesting sugar cane with a hammer. However, hammers do not actually exist in Minecraft.
- When the parents are learning to play Minecraft, Randy's character is facing sand and water, but when the shot moves behind Randy and Gerald, his character is facing a jungle.
- Corey Lanskin informs the parents that they will start on a beach, which - due to updates - was no longer accurate at the time of the episode’s release. In addition, only Randy's computer actually shows him starting on a beach.
- Randy and Sharon are seen playing together across an iPad and a PC. However, this episode premiered on 2 October 2013, and the cross-platform feature was not implemented until the "Better Together" update (released 2017-2019 depending on platform).
- Randy asks what a Magma Cube is. However, on his monitor, it shows his character inside a cave in the Overworld rather than in the Nether, where Magma Cubes are found. Also, since the Magma Cube is a mob rather than an item, Randy would not have actually been able to see its name.
- When Sharon kills Randy’s character for the last time, the "death screen" on his monitor shows him dead while next to a bed, like when he had died the last time, when only seconds before his character was outside in a field.
When the boys go to remove channels at Get Cable!, the name "Time Warner Cable" appears on the receptionist's shirt when he opens up his shirt to rub his nipples.
When Craig, Jimmy, and Tweek inform the boys about their parents watching ID, Jimmy is closest to them when they are shown face to face. When shown from the side, Craig is closest.
At the town meeting, Bebe was in front of Cartman when he booed Wendy in the first shot. In the next shots, Bebe is next to Wendy, and different students are in front of Cartman when he booed Wendy again.
At the second town meeting, Millie is shown sitting next to Cartman, but when someone else is shown talking who is seated near the back row, Millie is shown sitting in the back row.

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International Titles[]

Language	Title	Translation
Czech	Poučné vražedné porno	Informative Murder Porn
French	Porno meurtre informatif	Informative Murder Porn
German	Infotainment-Mörderpornos	Informative Murder Porn
Hungarian	Tényfeltáró gyilokpornó	Informative Murder Porn
Italian	Porno-Omicidi	Porno-homicide
Japanese	殺人ポルノ教養番組 (Satsujin poruno kyōyō bangumi)	Informative Murder Porn
Polish	Informacyjne mordo-porno	Informative Murder Porn

Japanese[]

The question for the TV parental lock is changed to "Minecraftの馬の好物はって？" (Minecraft no uma no kōbutsu wa tte?, "What is the horse's favorite food in Minecraft?")
When questioned by the police officers, Randy claims that he was playing the maracas instead of the banjo.
When the boys approach the cable company, the Oxygen channel is omitted from the list of channels which the boys want removed.
The cable company manager David is unnamed in this dubbing.