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• This entire episode was directed at people's tendency to interpret their own themes in material that obviously never intended that "hidden meaning".
• Strangely, it is Stan who exclaims in excitement at the risqué themes, when Kenny is the one who has been shown with an obsession with the female body.
• While Kenny does not die in the episode, Cartman does declare him dead while they, along with Kyle, are playing Xbox 360.
• In the hallways, an unnamed student is shown as "Student of the Month". The student's coat heavily resembles Jenny Simons' without buttons.
• In a deleted scene for this episode, the boys, Butters, and Ike are sitting around Cartman's bed and saying dirty words and Cartman puts them into a dirty sentence. At the same time, the school is holding a meeting for Catcher In The Rye to be removed from the banned books list. It is very likely that this was going to be the plot of the episode.
  • The bed scene was included in the final episode, though Butters is removed and music replaces the dialogue.
• This episode was released on DVD before South Park: The Complete Fourteenth Season was released; the episode was included on the 2010 DVD boxset A Little Box of Butters, which was released seven months before the former DVD.
• Caitlyn Jenner (then known as Bruce) expresses interest in going shopping for women’s underwear with the other Kardashians before being murdered. Jenner’s gender transition was not publicly known at the time this episode was released, so it arguably predicted it.

References to Popular Culture

• The book that Mr. Garrison is assigning is The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger. It has often been challenged due to its themes of sexuality, angst, rebellion, alienation, and teenage confusion. In reality, the book was banned in schools as it mainly contained the idea of communism, rather than being banned due to its profane contents.
• The insane man who kills the Kardashians looks strikingly familiar to both Mark David Chapman (the assassin of John Lennon) and John Hinckley Jr. (attempted assassin of Ronald Reagan). Both Lennon and Reagan are mentioned in the episode.
• Al Roker's statement that The Catcher in the Rye caused someone to make an assassination attempt on former President Ronald Reagan is partially incorrect. Although it has been claimed that John Hinckley Jr., who attempted to kill Reagan, could have been motivated by The Catcher in the Rye, it is more widely said that he was instead supposedly motivated by Jodie Foster's performance in the 1976 film Taxi Driver.
• The Jonas Brothers appear on a magazine in the bookstore.

Continuity

• This is the second time where one of Cartman's friends (Kenny) has agreed with him on murdering someone in order to accomplish their goals, the first being in "Good Times with Weapons" when Kenny gets his shuriken stuck in Butters' eye and Cartman suggests that they kill Butters which Kyle, fearful of his mom, agrees with.

Goofs

• In the original airing, Kyle mouths "What?" twice and no voice comes out. South Park Studios later corrected this in the re-runs of the episode.
• Meredith Vieira's lips change shapes between shots.
• When the boys first start writing The Tale, chapter one begins with "It was a warm spring morning..." but when Stan's mother finds it, she reads "It was a warm summer morning...". When Randy finishes the book, he reads "That was all long ago in some brief lost spring".

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International Titles

Language	Title	Translation
Czech	Příběh Šourka Kundibála	The Tale of Scrotie McBoogerballs
French	L'Histoire de Scrotie McMorvoburnes	The Tale of Scrotie McBoogerballs
German	Als die Kacke Pipi musste	The Poop That Took a Pee
Hungarian	Zacsi McFikásrúd meséje	The Tale of Scrotie McBoogerballs
Italian	La storia di Scroto McPalledipus	The Tale of Scrotie McBoogerballs
Polish	Opowieść Moszny McGlutojajca	The Tale of Scrotie McBoogerballs
Spanish (Latin America)	La historia de escroto Mc Bolas de Moco	The Tale of Scrotie McBoogerballs
Spanish (Spain)	La Historia de Scrotin Mc Huevosdemoco	The Tale of Scrotie McBoogerballs
Ukrainian	Історія: Нахезай в рота (Istoriya: Nakhezay v rota)

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• The errors of The Tale of Scrotie McBoogerballs starting and ending off as "spring" or "summer" are corrected in the Czech, European Spanish, French, Hungarian and Italian dubs, with all instances mentioning "spring" only.