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• This is the first appearance of Chef's Parents.
• This episode is one of the first to strongly hint that Mr. Garrison is gay.
• A succubus is a demon of mythical origin. It is a female demon that tempts men into committing "Acts of sin and fornication" and to steal souls of men through sexual contact.
• Kenny dies two times in this episode. The first time is when the boys are waiting for Chef (it's not certain whether he really died, but he was covered with rats like always). The second time is when he was crushed by the Succubus.
• First appearance of Mr. Derp, it's also the only time the character is given dialogue and real screen-time. He is a background character every time else.
• In the original Comedy Central commercial for the episode, Veronica Crabtree was shown as the new Chef.
• At the end when Chef is singing, the camera keeps showing Stan and Kyle's faces and then their backs. On the front side Stan is on the left but on the back Kyle is on the left and Stan is on the right
• When the Succubus kills Kenny, Kenny is shown being squished. Kenny is gone in the next scene, then reappears.
• At the end Cartman brings in Kenny's severed frozen head to use his eyes as a transplant. Kenny was shown being crushed, though his head could have been intact, as he could have been squished on his back, leaving his head intact.
• The optometrist continuously insults Eric Cartman calling him "piggy", in a possible reference to the character Piggy in the book Lord of the Flies.
• When Mr. Garrison says "Shut your ho Mr. Hat!", Mr. Hat is looking at Mr. Garrison.

References to Popular Culture

• Chef was at the library looking up books on the Kama Sutra, an ancient Hindu text that is the standard of human sexuality.
• Cartman has astigmatism, an ocular problem which makes it difficult to focus on objects.
• The receptionist at Steinberg & Burgstein mistakes Cartman for the "little boy from Jerry Maguire". Jerry Maguire was a 1996 romantic comedy starring Tom Cruise. This is in reference to actor Jonathan Lipnicki who played the role of Ray Boyd, he was six years old at the time the film was made, and wore glasses in that role.
• Mr. Garrison is teaching the students about the sitcom Facts of Life which ran from 1979-1988. He makes a number of references to the series as listed below:
  • He states that Tootie left in the fourth season. Dorothy "Tootie" Ramsey was a character played by actress Kim Fields. In reality she was on the series for all nine seasons appearing in a total of 200 episodes.
  • He states that Jo and Blair stayed on the show, and got married leaving Season 4 & 5 stagnant. Joanne "Jo" Polniaczek was played by actress Nancy McKeon who was also on the show for its entire run. Her character Jo does get married to Rick Bonner in the episode "Til Marriage do us Part". Blair Warner was played by Lisa Whelchel, her character never got married in the series.
• Chef's father is convinced that he is being tormented by the Loch Ness Monster, a creature said to live in lake Loch Ness in Scotland.
• According to Chef's dad, the Loch Ness Monster is a crustacean from the Proterozoic era. Crustaceans are sea creatures like shrimp or krill (i.e. possessing a hard exoskeleton and segmented body), which is inconsistent with the popular Loch Ness myth that identifies the creature as being a surviving Plesiosaur. The Plesiosaur was an aquatic reptile that existed during the Mesozoic era which ended 65 million years ago, versus the Proterozoic era which ended roughly 542 million years ago. Perhaps more pertinently, crustaceans had yet to even evolve in the Proterozoic era.
• Cartman mockingly calls Stan Tom Brokaw. Tom Brokaw was the lead anchor on NBC Nightly News from 1982-2004.
• The song playing while Veronica is walking down the isle is of course the classic Bridal Chorus from the opera Lohengrin composed by Richard Wagner around 1850.
• At Chef's new office job, a co-worker invites him to go buy leather holders for their pagers. Pagers are small telecommunication devices that were popular in the 1990's and early 21st century. Although rare, they are still used today.