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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“They’re semiotic phantoms, bits of deep cultural imagery that have split off and taken on a life of their own, like those Jules Verne airships that those old Kansas farmers were always seeing.... Semiotic ghosts. Fragments of the Mass Dream, whirling past in the wind of my passage.”
—William Gibson (b. 1948)