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• Kenny McCormick receives his only line of dialog for the entire season in this episode.
• While Lennart is observing Gerald trying to shut down the servers at TrollTrace, his phone service provider is "Singular", a parody of the now defunct Cingular Wireless, which has since merged into AT&T Wireless.

References to Popular Culture

• The title of this episode is a play on the title of the 1987 song, "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)", by the alternative rock band, R.E.M.
• Lennart Bedrager's death mirrors the death of The Emperor from the Star Wars film "Return of the Jedi".
• When Ike's internet history is revealed, he is shown to have searched for streams for the show The Amazing World of Gumball.
• After SpaceX is destroyed, Cartman suggests to Elon Musk to "go back to your little cars" referring to his involvement with Telsa Motors.
• "Never Gonna Give You Up" by Rick Astley is heard yet again inside the TrollTrace.com building.
• Zelda Breath of the Wild appears in Ike's internet search history.
• The results that come up during Ike's internet history on TrollTrace include:
  • YouTube searches for: PewDiePie, Markiplier, Game Grumps, Taylor Swift's "Bad Blood" and "Wildest Dreams", Minecraft cheats, Cool minecraft levels, rising canadian singers
  • Google seraches for: is yuuri on ice worth watching, yuuri on ice fanart, brownie recipe, how to make the best chocolate milk, Chinpokomon Sun and Moon, Final Fantasy XV, new chinpokomon alolan reigon, funniest knock knock jokes, easy origami, world of warcraft walkthrough, biggest chicken in the world, smallest man in history, choose your own adventure game, fun board games, chocolate soda recipes, fun cats, amazing world of gumball Streaming, Canadian TV Stars, santa mailing address, best christmas toys, santa's house
  • Tweets sent to Filmore Anderson, Daniel Smith, Quaid, Jordan Hadley, Firkle, Billy Harris
  • Emails sent to Sheila Broflovski, Kyle Broflovski, Kyle Schwartz and Santa
  • World of Warcraft login
  • Crunchyroll login for Yuuri on Ice!!
• The results that come up briefly during Sheila's search for Gerald's history on TrollTrace include
  • Google searches for: cottage cheese cellulite uggos, CHUBBY GIRLS EATING DISORDERS, GROSS UGLY MILFS, DUMB FEMALES
  • Tweets sent to Natalie Portman, Jennifer Lawarence and Amy Adams
  • Logins to Reddit and Tumblr
  • Emails sent to FATCHICKSANONYMOUS, Planned Parenthood and Dildo Shwaggins

Continuity

• Bill Clinton's warnings to Butters about the future of mankind are referenced again in Cartman's nightmare about Mars.
• "Chinpokomon" is referenced again in Ike's internet history. He searched Google for "Chinpokomon Sun and Moon", a reference to the game Pokemon Sun and Moon released weeks prior to this episode airing.
• This is the first appearance of Sparky since "Woodland Critter Christmas".
• Ike is still watching PewDiePie since Season 18.

Goofs

• The alignment of Kyle's soda can and the pencil cup on the desk keeps changing while he is trolling. When shown from the side, the pencil cup is off to the side of the monitor and at an angle from the soda, but when Kyle is shown on Skype, the cup is front of the monitor and aligned with the soda can.
• When Kyle starts trolling, he is shown from the back and there is a yellow notepad that is laying straight on the table. When the camera shows Kyle from the side and then the front, the notepad is now at an angle. The notepad switches to straight again when Shelia comes in and confronts Kyle and Ike.