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Trivia

• The original title of the episode was "Deal of the Decade". However, four days prior to air, the title was changed to "Time to Get Cereal".
• Ned Gerblanski receives his first speaking role in an episode since Season Five's "Here Comes the Neighborhood", which aired about 17 years prior to this episode.
  • Although he also spoke in South Park: The Stick of Truth and South Park: The Fractured But Whole.
• This episode marks Satan's first appearance and speaking role since Season Eighteen's "Freemium Isn't Free".
  • Even though he appears during Henrietta 's ultimate in South Park: The Fractured But Whole he doesn't speak.
• Al Gore returns; aside from South Park: The Stick of Truth his last significant role was a brief appearance in the Imaginationland saga.
• ManBearPig is shown in reality for the second time after "Imaginationland, Episode II". In this instance, however, it is confirmed to be a demon and not a fictional character, as opposed to walking through the gate to Imaginationland. 
• Real life restaurant chains Olive Garden, Red Lobster and Baskin Robbins are shown in this episode.
• Stan wears his normal brown winter coat in one of the promo pictures for this episode, but in the actual episode, he wears his "100% HEMP Tegridy Farms" shirt.

References to Popular Culture

• The episode heavily references Red Dead Redemption 2 , particularly with Harrison Yates. More than once he references the feature of being able to rob trains amongst other gameplay references.
• Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope is alluded to when Al Gore says of his own name, "That's a name I haven't heard in a long time", in a similar fashion to the character Obi-Wan Kenobi.
• Real life news reels including Al Gore are seen in Olive Garden. They include him:
  • On the campaign trail in 2000 during his bid to become U.S. president with his wife, Tipper and his running mate, Joe Lieberman.
  • With Hillary Clinton during the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election.
  • With George W. Bush in front of his official residence after conceding the 2000 Presidential election.
  • Walking the red carpet with his family in 2007 after being nominated for an Oscar for his film, An Inconvenient Truth.
• Schongauer's The Temptation of Saint Anthony is seen in the library and used to evidence the existence of Manbearpig and his origins as a demon.
• The episode mock PSAs in general but in particular those promoting libraries by enthusing about how important the 'local library' is.
• Al Gore tells the boys that he invented the internet after showing them his computer. This is a reference to the popular misconception that Gore made such a claim while campagning for President. In actuality, he stated that he "took the initiative in creating the Internet", a true statement referencing multiple bills he authored as a Senator, funding ARPANET and promoting the development of internet technology.

Continuity

• Like the scientists and security in "Imaginationland, Episode II", Stan fumbles over how to describe Manbearpig.
• A picture of Kyle and his elephant is seen in his room, referencing "An Elephant Makes Love to a Pig".
• Due to the previous school shootings in the season, Harrison Yates assumes that more happen during the episode.
• Al Gore's hideout was still located at the U-STOR-IT lock up since South Park: The Stick of Truth.
• This is the 7th time Cartman has been arrested.

Goofs

• Al Gore mentions that it would be "bitchin' sweet" to play Red Dead Redemption 2 on his computer with all three monitors. The game was only released on Xbox One and PlayStation 4 during the original airing of the episode while the PC version was later released on November 5, 2019, almost a year after the original airing of this episode.
• Stan mentions that his uncle was attacked and his friend was carried away, though only Ned is shown to be attacked and carried away while Jimbo watched in horror.
• Some of Manbearpig's footprints are shaped like a bear. However, both its feet are shaped like a pig's.
• Al Gore claims to have won an Oscar - in reality the Oscar went to director Davis Guggenheim. Gore was only credited as writer and narrator.