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Trivia[]

Randy Marsh makes his first appearance in this episode but he is not revealed to be Stan's dad until "An Elephant Makes Love to a Pig". Similarly, this episode also reveals that Jimbo Kern is Stan's grandfather.
- In addition, Sharon, Shelly and Marvin Marsh are not introduced until "An Elephant Makes Love to a Pig" and "Death" respectively.
This is also Ned Gerblanski's first appearance.
The song Hot Lava that Chef sings is one of the songs featured on Chef Aid: The South Park Album.
Randy Marsh is missing eyebrows for (almost) the entire episode, though they appear near the end.
Eric Cartman pretends he is in Vietnam when he is given a gun and claims to have flashbacks. In "The Mexican Staring Frog of Southern Sri Lanka", he is shown to know nothing about Vietnam.
- However, Mitch Conner, his alter-ego, had a flashback of the Vietnam War in "201".
When Uncle Jimbo notices the deer, he says, "looks like a 46-gauge" he is then seen with a rocket launcher. The shotgun gauge system works such that smaller numbers describe larger diameter shells, so a 46-gauge would actually be very small. Gun caliber numbers however get larger as the diameter of the ammunition increases.
This was the first episode to be rated TV-MA.
This is the first episode in the series without an appearance of South Park Elementary, and by extension, the first in which none of the main boys' classmates appear.
- This is also the only Season One episode in which the school does not appear.
This is the first episode where Cartman expresses his dislike for hippies.
Mayor McDaniels claims to have studied in Princeton University, although this is most likely to be falsehood, given that she makes tons of mistakes in the episode.
Although this was the second South Park episode broadcasted, it was the third one to be made, and is nearly always shown third on re-runs.

References to Popular Culture[]

Happy Tarts are a product that were mentioned in the film Orgazmo, which was a film created by Matt Stone and Trey Parker.
Jimbo and Ned both participated in the 'Nam, a.k.a the Vietnam War. Cartman said he fought in it as well, but he was making that up. Ned asks Cartman if he was stationed in Da Nang, which was the location of a major U.S. Air Force base in Vietnam during the war.
Jimbo blames the strict hunting and conservation laws in Colorado on the Democrats. The Democrats were in power federally in 1997, the year this episode was produced.
Cartman starts having "flashbacks" from 'Nam, telling somebody named Danforth to watch out for "Charlie". "Charlie" is a slang term for the phrase "Victor Charlie" which was the NATO phonetic alphabet name for the Viet Cong Army.
Cartman tells Stan to "Go back to Woodstock" if he cannot shoot anything. This is in reference to the original Woodstock Music Festival of 1969, who's major attendees were Hippies.
When Ned lights himself on fire, Jimbo tells him to "Stop-Drop-And-Roll", which is the catch phrase fire safety measure.
Mount Evanston is named after the real Mount Evans located in the state of Colorado.
When warned of Mt. Evanston's impending eruption, the Mayor tells her aide to call Inside Edition (A magazine series that featured crime, celebrity gossip and human interest stories), Rescue 911 (A television program that featured reenactments of real stories of 911 phone calls, hosted by William Shatner), and Entertainment Tonight (A TV series centered on celebrity gossip.)
The monster known as Scuzzlebutt is missing a leg, in its place is actor Patrick Duffy. When Cartman tells this legend to his friends, they do not find it very scary, to which Cartman responds by saying "What do you mean? Have you ever seen Step By Step?". Step By Step was a sitcom on ABC which starred Patrick Duffy.
The song that Ned sings on his "cancer kazoo" is "Kumbaya", a popular Christian folk song.
Ned and Jimbo hope to get on the cover of "Guns & Ammo", a.k.a Guns and Ammo Magazine, a publication for gun enthusiasts.
The towns people are shown an educational video titled Lava and You which is a parody of Duck and Cover, a nuclear explosion safety technique that suggested ducking and covering oneself would protect them from a nuclear bomb, much like how Lava and You suggests doing the same thing will protect them from lava.
"It's coming right for us!" references an incident in Colorado in which a man shot three Rocky Mountain black bears (a protected species) down from a tree. His excuse: "They were coming right for us!"
Matt and Trey thought of an episode that were based on two Volcano disaster films of 1997 such as Dante's Peak and Volcano (1997).

Continuity[]

Ned mentioned that he took part in the war in Vietnam. This was the report given to children by Mr. Garrison in "The Mexican Staring Frog of Southern Sri Lanka". When they came to Jimbo and Ned, Uncle Jimbo was telling the story about the times he and Ned spent in Vietnam during the war.
The reused clip from this episode was shown in The South Park Clip Show.
In Randy's laboratory in "Spontaneous Combustion", the poster behind him says "Volcano alert".
A man with Scuzzlebutt on his t-shirt was seen behind the boys in The Wacky Molestation Adventure. This man reappeared again with the same t-shirt in "Scott Tenorman Must Die".
An issue about Scuzzlebutt was published and now shown in local Gazette office, as seen in "Stanley's Cup".

Goofs[]

At the beginning, Jimbo calls Ned 'Dan'.
At the end, Ned could not shoot Scuzzlebutt because he is out of ammo, but later, he drops his gun and it shoots Kenny.
When Ned vows to never use a gun again, the rifle he uses is on its holding position, but his hands are not in any place of the gun.
South Park has some tough snow. When the boulder of lava lands in front of Kenny, there were neither steam nor melting snow around it.
When the boys are hunting in the forest, then they start to crawl after the rabbit. However, the background behind them is static as if they were crawling in place.
When Jimbo is apologizing to the boys for almost getting them killed, his left hand moves to his mouth independently of his arm.
At the nighttime fire scene, the fire was standing still, but then it is seen moving again.
In Cartman's tale Scuzzlebutt's left hand was a stalk of celery, but when he personifies Scuzzlebutt, his hand is not celery; Scuzzlebutt holds celery in his right hand. When Scuzzlebutt came to rescue the camping party, his right hand was a stalk of celery.
While Cartman tells his Scuzzlebutt tale, Stan's arm is missing. It later reappears.
When the guys are looking for Cartman, they see a ram. Jimbo starts shooting at it, but when the camera changes views, Kenny is the one shooting at the ram.
Patrick Duffy is supposed to be Scuzzlebutt's left leg but when Stan kills Scuzzlebutt, he appears as his right leg on the news. In addition, Patrick's head is dislocated from his neck when Scuzzlebutt is killed, but when he cries out "No! Why, God, why?", it is no longer dislocated.
When Stan shoots Scuzzlebutt, the bullet hole is in the middle of his forehead, but when Stan boasts that he has "finally killed something", the bullet hole is on the left side of Scuzzlebutt's forehead. In addition, Stan's gun is not even aimed at Scuzzlebutt's head when he fires; it is pointed at Scuzzlebutt's torso.
Mount Evanston's massif is originally green, but when the towns people start to rescue, it turns brown, and a few moments later (when it erupts), its color comes back to green, then brown again.
Lava has relatively high viscosity and would not be able make its way to Denver since it will solidify on halfway.
On one shot of Channel 4 News, a man in red jacket is seen floating on Mount Evanston.
Due to bad framing for 16:9 display, in the HD version of the episode, when Randy moves his hand over the map, his right arm is clearly seen floating and not attached to anything.

Kenny's Death[]

Kenny seemingly gets crushed by a large volcanic boulder ejected from the volcano, however, he comes out from behind the boulder and says he was okay, only for his arm to catch fire and the boulder to roll over him, seemingly crushing him this time.
He is later seen alive after the lava travels through the trench, only to be shot by Ned when he drops his gun on the ground.

Dubbing Changes[]

International Titles[]

Language	Title	Translation
Cantonese	火山爆發 (fo2 saan1 baau3 faat3)	Volcanic eruption
Czech	Sopka	Volcano
Finnish	Tulivuori	Volcano
German	Knall endlich den Hasen ab!	Shoot the rabbit already!
Hungarian	A vulkán	The volcano
Italian	Spara alla lava	Shoot the lava
Japanese	ケニー、火山噴火で爆死 (Kenī, kazan funka de bakushi)	Kenny, dying in volcanic eruption
Latvian	Vulkāns	Volcano
Mandarin Chinese	四賤客打獵記～怪物『司庫拉』&火山爆發記 (Sì jiàn kè dǎliè jì ~ guàiwù “sīkù lā” & huǒshān bàofā jì)	The boys' hunt - Monster Scuzzlebutt and the volcanic eruption
Polish	Wulkan	Volcano
Portuguese (Brazil)	Vulcão	Volcano
Russian	Вулкан	Volcano
Spanish (Latin America)	Volcán	Volcano
Spanish (Spain)	Culo Sucio	Scuzzlebutt
Ukrainian	Вулкан	Volcano

Common[]

Scuzzlebutt's Patrick Duffy leg is replaced with another personality:
- Cantonese: Dayo Wong
- Hungarian: Tom Cruise
- Italian (2nd): Ridge Forrester, a character from The Bold and the Beautiful.
- Mandarin Chinese: An unnamed politician
- Portuguese (Brazil): Kevin Costner
- Spanish (Spain): Ricky Martin
The cheesy poofs and happy tarts which Liane packed for Eric is replaced with other food items:
- Czech: Croquettes and candy
- French: Potato chips and mini pizza slices
- Hungarian: Chocolate donuts, replacing "happy tarts"
- Italian (2nd): Bocconcini cheese toast
- Spanish (Spain): Corn-off-the-cob, replacing "happy tarts"
- Removed in the Mandarin Chinese dub.
The mayor's ban on Salisbury steak being served in schools is replaced with other food items:
- Cantonese and Mandarin Chinese: Dumplings
- French: Steak haché
- German: Steak Madagascar
- Hungarian: Bison meat
- Italian (2nd): Meat
- Spanish (Spain): Minced meat
All instances of "Kumbaya" from the eponymous song are replaced with "Hallelujah" in the Brazilian Portuguese and European Spanish dubs.

Cantonese[]

The Lava and You video uses Mandarin Chinese as the language medium, making this one of the few scenes in the entire dub where Mandarin Chinese is used.
Both of the mayor's aides through the telecom are replaced with female voices.
The Scuzzlebutt carries the title of 殺人王 (saat3 jan4 wong4, lit. "Killer king").

French[]

The Mayor tries to call for a neurologist instead of a geometrist.
During the telecom call with the mayor's second aide, the mayor quotes "Journal de 20 heures and other advertising agencies".

German[]

When offered a can of beer, Kyle explains that the boys prefer drinking cocoa instead of chocolate milk.

Hungarian[]

During the telecom call with the mayor's first aide, the mayor first confuses "geologist" for an "urologist", then asserts to her aide that she had studied in Harvard. The mayor then calls for a geomókust (lit. "geo-squirrel") instead of a "geologist" (geológust).

Italian (2nd)[]

During the telecom call with the mayor's first aide, the mayor correctly calls in the "geologist" instead of a "geometrist". Despite this, the mayor's aide still tries to correct her anyway.
During the telecom call with the mayor's second aide, the mayor does not quote any specific news networks, instead calling for "journalists from all channels, local and national newspapers and radio stations".

Mandarin Chinese[]

Jimbo compares "sober hunting" to "the Legislative Yuan without fights". Violence among lawmakers is a common sight within the Taiwanese Legislative Yuan.
Cartman's made-up story of being involved in Vietnam is replaced with simply "a police shootout".
The Mayor confuses "geologist" for a "running dog".
After getting fired by the Mayor, the aide thanks the Mayor and even admits to have been "waiting for this day."
The Lava and You video is titled "火山與你" (Pinyin: Huǒshān yǔ nǐ, lit. "Volcano and You").