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Trivia

• The Brown Noise is a reference to the White Noise, a N*** method of driving the enemy insane with music during World War II.
• The New York Kids should have an appearance on South Park: The Stick of Truth, as the models of four of them can be found in the game files. Their appearance in the game (except Smitty) is slightly different from their appearance in this episode.
  • The name of the New York kid in the white tank top was revealed as "Smitty" in the game files.
• This episode displays Mr. Hat's capability of independent existence.
• In the South Park 5th Anniversary special, Danny DeVito claimed that this was one of his favorite episodes.
• During the shots of the 4 million children, there are various repeat appearances throughout the crowd - for example, in shots of the stage from the crowd, at least fifteen versions of the Brimmy can be seen, albeit with green brims on their hats instead of yellow.
• During the shot of the crowd from the stage, a "mirror" effect can be seen on the left side of the screen, resulting in several pairs of twins appearing along the edge of the shot.
• On televised airings, when the sheet music that the boys changed appears on the stage wall, the camera zooms in on the changed note, but in the DVD version, it does not zoom in at all.
• This is one of the few times that the boys' actions have a negative effect on a massive national and even global scale. Other examples appear in "Two Days Before the Day After Tomorrow", "Cancelled" and South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut.
• Queefs are mentioned and focused on in a later episode, "Eat, Pray, Queef".
• On the December 16, 2013, airing on Comedy Central, it was titled "The Brown Noise".
• It's unknown if the boys (minus Kenny), Ms. Crabtree, Mr. Garrison and Mr. Mackey defecated themselves when the brown noise note was played as they were offscreen when it happened.

References to Popular Culture

• One of the New Yorker kids are wearing a shirt that says Ekko, this is likely a parody of the Ecko clothing line.
• The boys, along with the New York children, stay at the Roman Holiday Inn. This is a reference to the 1953 romantic comedy Roman Holiday starring Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn.
• Cartman says that "they should bring back another season of Chicago Hope, though, seriously." Chicago Hope is an American medical drama television series that was in its final season when this episode aired.
• Mr. Garrison's line: "Second star to the right, and straight on 'til morning" is a reference to a line in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. The line was, in turn, a quote from Peter Pan.
• Cartman threatens Kyle and tells him once he finds The Brown Note "I'll just make you crap yourself so you look like Karen Carpenter". This is a reference to the singer, who was part of the 1970s music duo, The Carpenters. She had suffered from anorexia most of her life and it is believed that she had been consuming large amounts of laxatives, along with thyroid medication and strict dieting, in order to help her lose weight before her sudden death in 1983 at the age of 32.
• When Mr. Garrison walks out of his parents' house, he sings "Put on a Happy Face" by Dick Van Dyke.

Continuity

• The Chinese dodgeball players from "Conjoined Fetus Lady" can be seen among the citizens in China, shortly after the brown note was played.

Goofs

• When Mr. Mackey says "Aren't those our boys?", Stan's and Kyle's hats can still be seen next to him.
• Kenny is seen dead after the massacre of crap, but later, he can still be seen alive on the bus.
• The second time it says Pox, it says the 4 Million Child Blow is live in Oklahoma City, despite the concert being moved to Arkansas.
• When The New York Kids say that mung a real word, and the boys say, "It is?", the children directly behind The New Yorker Kids turn around and join in saying, "Yeah"; Tolkien, Bill and Red appear to be saying this. They along with multiple other copies of kids from South Park Elementary are also are shown laughing when the boys are corrected that mung is a word. They could just be laughing at the their stupidity, though.
• The crowd shot of all the kids at the concert has tons of repeated character designs.
  • Some kids are seen standing next to identical versions of themselves showing where each group was mirrored whilst animating the episode.
• Additionally The New York Kids' definition of mung is actually incorrect as it is a multi-purpose acronym that means "Mush Until No Good".
• The boys changed the last note to the lowest octave of E-flat according to the score, not the brown noise they stated, which needs to be 92 cents lower, and there is no means within the stave that can identify this brown noise.
• Towards the end of the episode as the third-graders were getting on the bus, there was another bus on the background labeled "Honolulu School District", which is impossible given that a journey between Honolulu and Arkansas requires traveling across the Pacific Ocean.

Kenny's Death

• When everyone at the concert plays the "Brown Noise", Kenny is one of the many people who died from then releasing of his bowels. However, due to a continuity error, he is seen alive on the bus at the end of the episode.

Dubbing Changes

International Titles

Language	Title	Translation
Czech	Světový koncert	World concert
Finnish	Neljä miljoonaa nokkahuilua	Four million recorders
French	Le Bruit marron	The brown noise
German	Jetzt gibt’s was auf die Ohren!	You'll get a beating!
Hungarian	A világraszóló koncert	The world famous concert
Italian	Il dilemma di Garrison	Garrison's dilemma
Japanese	ウンコ漏らし周波数 (Unko morashi shūhasū) English title: The Brown Noise	Poop leakage frequency
Polish	Światowy koncert fletowy	World flute concert
Russian	Всемирный флейтовый концерт (Vsemirnyy fleytovyy kontsert)	World flute concert
Spain (Latin America)	Concierto Mundial de Flauta Dulce Alternative: El Ruido Marrón	World recorder concert Alternative: The brown noise
Spain (Spain)	Mi País es esto	This is my country
Ukrainian	Коричневий Шум (Korychnevyy Shum)	Brown noise

Hungarian

• All characters' voice effects following the brown noise, along with the boys' whistling during the news report are removed, and replaced with faint crowd noises.

Japanese

• A running gag is established where the word "peace" is uttered by Yoko Ono more frequently, and stressed in all instances.

Mandarin Chinese

• List of plot element changes:
  • The school travels to Kaohsiung, Taiwan for the recorder concert, to be held at the city's Love River.
  • The concert was originally scheduled to take place in Taichung.
  • The brown note is established to be 8 octaves below E minor.
• The news reporter at the end of the concert reports that there are other deaths as a result of the worldwide brown noise incident, and that a public holiday has been declared in light of the incident.

Ukrainian

• In the first commercial, Kenny G is named first before Yoko Ono.
• Apart from Stan, Cartman is also heard calling "Stop!" in an attempt to stop the concert from playing the brown note.