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Trivia
- The ending scenes of this episode mirror a scene from the original short "The Spirit of Christmas".
- Stan has been seen playing a guitar previously in "Die Hippie, Die".
- The title sequence features a redesigned crowd scene. It most notably replaces Chef with 'Darth Chef' and Mr. Garrison as Ms. Garrison (who had been depicted as male up until then despite having had a gender change over a year prior). Other additions are the City Airlines plane and a Crab person.
- The word "Pious" is a word for smug or arrogant.
- The "Toyonda Pious" is based on the real life hybrid, the Toyota Prius, Others seen are the "Hindsight", which is based on the Honda Insight, and an MPV- Toyota looking hybrid that has the same front as a Prius, but not an actual car in real life.
- Cartman told Kyle to go to San Francisco to the rest of Jews in "An Elephant Makes Love to a Pig".
- The song Cartman was trying to get people to sing was based on 'na na hey hey kiss him goodbye' by Steam.
- Kenny does not appear at all in this episode.
- During the "going away party," Red is seen in two places at the same time: next to Cartman and in the kitchen.
- As Stan is writing a song to make everyone drive hybrid cars the poster behind him on his wall eludes to "Fallout 3", featuring the lone wanderer and his dog.
- This is the last ever episode to feature the Braniff plane logo at the end.
- Due to Chef's death in the last episode, the "Chef's Band Thanks" credit was renamed "Very Special Thanks".
- Starting with this episode, the external appearences of the houses in the town were updated, most noticeably the icicles on the roofs being redrawn and trees being placed behind the fences.
Goofs
- When Jimbo is listening to the hybrd car song, he has no mouth.