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Character that looks like a green Craig.

• A color swap of Craig Tucker, with green instead of blue, can be seen in the cafeteria. A green Craig also appears in "Ass Burgers".
• This is the first episode in which none of the boys' parents appear.
• Kenny does not seem to know what a lesbian is, even though he has a vast sexual knowledge.
• Listed on the hot lunch menu in the cafeteria are the options:

1. Cous Cous with Goose
2. Cream Cheese Surprise
3. Beef Jerky a la Hercules

• Different types of noses shown on the template (in Tom's Rhinoplasty) are listed below:

1. Hooker
2. Trump
3. Money
4. Artist
5. Cheater
6. Dictator

• Wendy's threats to Ms. Ellen marks the first time in the series that a female uses the F-word.
• This episode has the most times where Stan puked, with a total of 19 times, including the flashback scenes.
• This is the second time Stan does the infamous Charlie Brown-esque smile with the little hearts dancing around his head, the first being "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe".
• Tom makes a brief appearance at the end of South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut in the crowd singing "Mountain Town (Reprise)".
• This was the only Valentine's Day themed episode of the series until "Cupid Ye".
• This is the only episode to feature the children of the 3rd grade classroom in different seats. In particular, Bebe is seen in Annie's seat, and vice versa.
• This is the first time Craig is seen in Mr. Garrison's classroom, albeit only when the kids are leaving the class.
• David Hasselhoff was the first celebrity whose head was used on the body of an animated South Park character.
• This is the first episode where a celebrity plays an actual voice role. Prior, when Trey Parker and Matt Stone let celebrities voice act in an episode, they only let them play very minor roles by voicing animals and having them make the noises of said animals, as evidenced by George Clooney's voice role of Sparky in "Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride".
• This is also the first episode in the series to primarily focus on Wendy Testaburger.
• The HD version of this episode still has Wendy's flashbacks of Stan rendered in SD quality, but are given a blur around the edges. This same thing is also done with the flashback scenes in the HD version of "City on the Edge of Forever (Flashbacks)".

References to Popular Culture

• The actress Natasha Henstridge voiced Ms. Ellen, who at the time, was most famous for her appearance in the 1995 film Species.
  • During the opening credits for this episode she is billed as a guest star in the episode, however instead of Henstridge's name she is credited as "The Chick From Species".
• When Mr. Garrison has reconstructive surgery, he ultimately chooses a face that resembles actor David Hasselhoff.
  • The plot of Garrison getting the Hasselhoff face is a parody of Knight Rider, a TV series which starred Hasselhoff. In the show, his character Michael Knight, first played by Larry Anderson, was shot and had to get plastic surgery done on his face, making him David Hasselhoff by the end of the episode.
• When Chef is trying to gauge how attractive Ms. Ellen is, he offers the following female celebrities as basis of comparison:
  1. Vanessa Williams
  2. Toni Braxton
  3. Pamela Anderson
  4. Erin Gray.
• Chef specifies how Erin Gray appeared in the second season of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, the TV series which she is most famous for appearing in.
• The music during Wendy's sad montage is sung by actress Toddy Walters.
  • The montage also uses clips from previous episodes "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe" and "Pinkeye". A piano rendition of this song originally plays in "The Unaired Pilot" when Kyle begs the Visitors for Ike back.
• According to Cartman, instead of teaching the children their multiplication table, Mr. Garrison was educating them on the thrilling subject of actress Yasmine Bleeth's romance life.
  • Bleeth was best known for her role on the TV show Baywatch. Several months after this episode originally aired, she appeared in the film BASEketball starring South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone. She was referenced again in the Season Five episode, "The Entity".
  • According to Garrison, she dated actor Richard Grieco who is best known for his role as Detective Dennis Booker on the TV series 21 Jump Street. Garrison had also told the children that Grieco briefly had his own show, referring to the 21 Jump Street spinoff, Booker, that last only one season.
• The mere mention of the 1997 sci-fi film Contact causes Mr. Garrison to become violently ill. The film stars Jodie Foster playing the role of Ellie Arroway, who is trying to contact aliens. The film ends with her meeting an alien which takes on the form of her father. Garrison slams the movie for having such a bad ending. Matt Stone and Trey Parker share this opinion towards the film and this is the first of many critiques of the film to appear in an episode of South Park.
• Wendy asks Ms. Ellen if people her age require Depends undergarment. These adult diapers for incontinence were invented in 1980 by Kimberly Clark. The common stereotype associated to the product is that they are worn by the elderly who have no control over their waste functions.
• Kyle mishears Chef explaining that Ms. Ellen is a lesbian. The word he hears is plebeian. The historical use of the word was to classify the general population of ancient Rome. In modern times, it is used as a derogatory term for those considered to be common or ignorant.
• Whenever Mr. Garrison struts his stuff, the song "Shadow Dancing" plays. The song was sung by Andy Gibb. The song was released in 1978.
• Cartman says that his mother told him that to become a lesbian, one has to lick carpet. "Carpet muncher" is a derogatory term for a lesbian. In a later scene, Cartman can be seen eating an old cardboard box on the advice of his mother. "Box" is a slang term for vagina.
• According to the record store owner Stan visited, to be a lesbian, you need to listen to the Indigo Girls, the boys mispronounce the name as "Indiglo Girls".
• The Indigo Girls' song that the boys play is called "Make it Easier" from their 1989 album Strange Fire.
  • And according to Kyle, a lesbian also wears Birkenstocks.
• When Wendy is made over by Bebe, Cartman thinks she looks like Olivia Newton-John as she appeared in her role of Sandy Olsen in the 1978 film version of the musical Grease. However, he confuses Olivia Newton-John's with male singer Elton John.
• The line "we just got a call in the office: your grandma just died" is from Ferris Bueller's Day Off, when Ferris gets his girlfriend Sloane out of school.
• When Mr. Garrison is posing for pictures at the Photo Dojo, a production still from Cannibal! The Musical, which was Parker's first film. It was released by Troma Entertainment in 1996.
• Mr. Garrison decides that if he is going to be able to pose for more pictures, he would need more Smack. Smack is the street name for the drug Heroin. Drug abuse is a cliché of the modeling industry in the 1990s as the gaunt thin look was popular at the time.
• Ms. Ellen's demise is extremely similar to that of The Enormous Crocodile from the Roald Dahl book of the same name, because they both have been shot into the sun.

Goofs

Wendy's red hat.

• When Cartman exclaims about Ms. Ellen's outfit, Wendy's hat turns dark red.
• Craig is seen walking out of the classroom at one point but does not appear in a desk nor anywhere else in the class.
• When Wendy leaves after yelling at Stan, the color swap of Kevin's brown hair turns black. Bebe's position also changes position from next to Wendy to in front of her.
• When Ms. Ellen notices Kenny's gift, Wendy's seat is replaced by Kevin's for a frame.
• For one moment when Wendy is yelling at Stan, the table on the right is missing.
• When the children see the new look of Mr. Garrison, Wendy is wearing her normal outfit instead of the leather one she wore to impress Stan. Then in the next scene, Wendy wears the leather outfit again.
• When the kids first take cover under their desks, Bebe is missing.
• When Kenny is impaled by a sword, blood splats from his face, but when Stan and Kenny acknowledge his death his face is clean and the blood just starts to leak from his face.
• In the South Park Studios subtitles, Bebe is misspelled as Babay while Wendy's last name is misspelled as Testaberger.

Kenny's Death

• When the Iraqis arrest Ms. Ellen, she grabs a scimitar off one of them. She quickly loses her grip on it and it flies away, impaling Kenny between the eyes and pinning him to the wall.

Dubbing Changes

International Titles

Language	Title	Translation
Czech	Tomova plastická chirurgie	Tom's plastic surgery
Finnish	Kauneusleikkaus	Cosmetic surgery
French	Chirurgie esthétique	Plastic surgery
German	Geil auf Miss Ellen!	Horny for Ms. Ellen!
Hungarian	Tom szépségklinikája	Tom's beauty clinic
Italian	Tom il bello	Handsome Tom
Japanese	ウェンディ、レズに嫉妬 (U~endi, rezu ni shitto)	Wendy, jealous of lesbians
Latvian	Toma Rnoplastija	Tom's Rhinoplasty
Mandarin Chinese	湯姆的整鼻診所 (Tāngmǔ de zhěng bí zhěnsuǒ)	Tom's Rhinoplasty
Polish	Rhinoplastyka Toma	Tom's Rhinoplasty
Portuguese (Brazil)	A rinoplastia de Tom	Tom's Rhinoplasty
Russian	Ринопластическая клиника Тома (Rinoplasticheskaya klinika Toma)	Tom's Rhinoplasty Clinic
Spanish (Latin America)	Cirugía plástica de Tom	Tom's plastic surgery
Spanish (Spain)	La Rinoplastia de Sr. Garrison	Mr. Garrison's rhinoplasty
Ukrainian	Пластична хірургія Тома (Plastychna khirurhiya Toma)	Tom's plastic surgery

Common

• After Ms. Ellen opens up her presents in class, Wendy quotes other clothing over Depend undergarments in her question to Ms. Ellen:
  • Czech: Bloomers
  • French, Italian (2nd), Polish (Comedy Central), Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish (Latin America; 1st) and Ukrainian: General term of "Diapers"
  • German: Stockings
  • Mandarin Chinese: Bra with adjustable straps
• Cartman claims that his grandmother was of another ethnicity in the following dubs:
  • Czech: Irish only
  • French: Dutch-Lesbian
  • German: Half-Dutch, unknown for the other half
  • Polish (Comedy Central) and Spanish (Latin America; 2nd): Dutch only
  • Hungarian: Mozambican
  • Ukrainian: Danish-Irish
  • No ethnicity is mentioned in the Japanese and Mandarin Chinese dubs.
• Kyle mishears Chef saying "lesbian" as other words in the following dubs:
  • French: Chrétienne ("Christian"), from lesbienne.
  • German: Wespe (a self-propelled artillery used by N*** Germany during World War II), from lesbe.
  • Hungarian: Logikus ("Logical"), from leszbikus.
  • Mandarin Chinese: 鋁銅性戀 (Lǚ tóng xìng liàn, "aluminum copper"), from 同性戀 (Tóng xìng liàn).

Czech

• After Wendy screams for the final time at the cafeteria, the echoes can still be heard up until as Cartman is entering the kitchen.

German

• Chef quotes Whitney Houston over Toni Braxton when asking about Ms. Ellen's appearance.
• Chef quotes Diana Rigg over Erin Grey when asking about Ms. Ellen's appearance, specifying her role in the 1960s British espionage series The Avengers.
• The song playing while the boys are licking the carpet is translated into German.
• The photographer's announcement of "taking a few hundred shots" is changed to only "one hundred shots".

Hungarian

• Chef quotes Salma Hayek over Erin Grey when asking about Ms. Ellen's appearance.
• The Iraqi officer does not reveal Ms. Ellen's real name. Despite this, Principal Victoria still addresses her as "Ms. Makaraqesh".

Italian (1st)

• Chef quotes Marilyn Monroe over Vanessa Williams when asking about Ms. Ellen's appearance.

Italian (2nd)

• Cartman's explanation of Yasmine Bleeth's romance life is entirely replaced with the following: "Mr. Garrison taught us about that hottie Pamela Anderson who is going out with that Mitch guy from Baywatch. But she was later caught secretly making a porn video..." Pamela Anderson took the role of C. J. Parker in the same show.
• Instead of mishearing Chef saying "lesbian" as other words, Kyle simply asks, "What does that mean?".

Japanese

• Kyle tags the price of his Birkenstocks at $3.
• Mr. Garrison addresses Mrs. Campbell as "Mrs. Kimble".
• After Kenny gets killed, Kyle responds with "Makarakesh, you bastard!".

Mandarin Chinese

• While Chef is trying to explain how beautiful is Ms. Ellen, he mentions several actresses such as Carina Lau, Rachel Lee and Stephanie Shiao, before coming to a conclusion that she looks like Kelly Chen.
• When the boys plan to buy Valentine gifts for Ms. Ellen, Cartman thinks of buying a vacuum cleaner. In this dubbing, the gift is changed to a vibrator.
• When Ms. Ellen asks on the topic that the class has left off, Cartman replies that they were studying The Plum in the Golden Vase, a 17th-century Chinese novel.
• Contact, the film which Doctor Tom brought up to Mr. Garrison after the operation, was replaced with Titanic. After Doctor Tom leaves, Mr. Garrison comments that he was expecting a plot of merely a sinking ship when it turns out to be a love story.
• The dead animal gifted by Wendy to Ms. Ellen is identified as a dead rat.
• Cartman comments on Wendy's leather suit that she looks like a pole dancer.
• Ms. Ellen's real name was never stated in the dubbing.
• Wendy's conversation with the Iraqis is transcribed into the subtitles as follows:
  • Wendy: 事情進行的怎麼樣了？ ("How goes the plan?")
  • Iraqi: 很順利，我們的尾款呢？ ("Very smooth, and where's our payment?")
  • Wendy: 怕什麼，我又不會跑掉。 ("What are you afraid of, I won't run away.")
  • Iraqi: 量你也不敢不付，準時匯到。 ("You wouldn't dare not to pay, and on time.")
  • Wendy: 瑞士銀行賬戶，我了。 ("From my Swiss bank account, me.^[sic]")
  • Iraqi: 夠爽快，有機會再合作。 ("Fair enough. Looking forward to working with you again.")

Spanish (Latin America; 1st)

• When Stan throws up during the first class, Kyle thinks he had eggs instead of waffles for breakfast.
• While Chef is trying to explain how beautiful is Ms. Ellen, he mentions several actresses such as Jennifer Lopez, Salma Hayek, Cameron Diaz, and "Zorro's lover in the Antonio Banderas film" (referring to Catherine Zeta-Jones who played the role of Elena Montero in The Mask of Zorro).
• The subject of Yasmine Bleeth is entirely replaced with Mexican singer Luis Miguel.

Spanish (Latin America; 2nd)

• During class, Wendy tells Ms. Ellen that for someone old like her, she should stay indoors for being incontinent.
• The shoes which Kyle brought into Cartman's house do not carry a brand name.