Cultural References
- Randy Marsh compares the boys to "little John Walkers." This is meant as a reference to John Walker Lindh, an American who fought for the Taliban.
- Michael Dorn is famous for playing Worf on Star Trek: The Next Generation. He is portrayed in this episode wearing a sweatshirt which bears the logo of Pasadena City College, his real-life alma mater. After this episode was broadcast, Dorn revealed that he is a fan of South Park, and would have provided his voice for the episode had he been asked. Dorn himself is a vegan.
- When Cartman answers the phone to talk to the negotiator for the last time, he says "Mike, babe!", a reference to the Carpenter's song "Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft", in which a radio DJ repeatedly refers to his caller, Mike Ledgerwood, as "Babe".
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“A society that has made “nostalgia” a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.”
—Christopher Lasch (b. 1932)