Cartman and the Rainbows - so just what is it that crawls up your legs and into your butt? Cartman's monologue was inspired from a woman Trey and Matt overheard at a restaurant. Apparently, she didn't like rainbows, either. Probably 'cause it means the end of a rainstorm, and she liked the rain.

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When Mr. Garrison is about to announce who will give Eric his award, there's no writing on the blackboard.
Mr. Hat's spinning head echoes that from the movie The Exorcist.
Kathie Lee's song is the one she sang for Carnival Cruise lines.
The Immortals - The people in the audience during the National Talent Show Finals some 30 or 40 years ago also appear during the Award Ceremony, and then on Geraldo.
Kathie Lee & the sweat shop joke - Kathie Lee Gifford had her own line of clothing for Wal-Mart. The same woman who apparently can't complete a sentence without mentioning her children and also the same woman who claims to love all children, didn't realize her clothes were being made by child laborers in some third-world country in a child labor sweat shop.
When Cartman says "Beefcake - beefCAAKE!" it sounds like that Torrence kid from "The Shining" when he yells "Redrum-redRUUM!"
Cartman has the fastest hands in the business. As his mom heads out to buy him some Beefcake he knocks his box of Cheesy Poofs off the sofa. As soon as his mother passes, the box is back at his side.
Some new creatures are on Jimbo's walls: bunnyfish. So is a poster of a seal that says
GUNS
BUY ONE
Colorado Alert!! Coloraodo Alert!!
Mr. Garrison's "Are you looking at me" line is from Taxi Driver, starring Robert De Niro and Jodi Foster. This is the movie that would-be Presidential assassin John Hinckley saw over and over until he was obssessed with Jodie, a teenager then, and which led to his stalking Jodie while she was at Yale, and finally, to his spectacular bid to impress her by killing Ronald Reagan. The rest is history. The interesting thing is that Hinckley grew up in Denver, Colorado, not far from Park County, South Park's location.
When Wendy sneaks into the classroom, this appears behind her...

As Wendy searches through the papers, her gloves come off and on.
Mr. Garrison bought a rifle with a wood handle, but the gun with the iron handle is the one he carries down the street. Later, in the book depository, when he's talking to Wendy, the wood handle is there.
As Mr. Garrison walks down the street with his new purchase, everyone calls out "Nice gun". This is similar to a scene in Doc Hollywood, in which Doc Hollywood (Michael J. Fox) walks down the street with a new pig given to him as payment for a doctor's visit. Everyone comments, "(that sure is a) Nice pig, Doc" etc.
Officer Barbrady's pants are black when he lets Garrison by with his gun and takes the camera away from the man following him.
The Book Depository is the location from which Lee Harvey Oswald is alleged to have assassinated John F. Kennedy.
Kathie Lee travels in a vehicle much like the Pope-mobile.
"It is…too late for me, young Wendy" was paraphrased from Darth Vader in Star Wars, Return of the Jedi, where Luke tries to bring his father back from the Dark Side.
This is the first sentence of Henry David Thoreau's Walden "When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the labor of my hands only." The parts in blue are the ones Cartman omitted from his paper, as Wendy would show when she read it aloud.
When Wendy is trying to stop Mr. Garrison, Mr. Hat is sitting on the rifle, but when Mr. Garrison lowers the rifle Mr. Hat is nowhere in sight. Right after Stan asks, "Man, did she really throw her voice with two dummies at once?" Mr. Hat is again on Mr. Garrison's right hand.
Mr. Garrison's "Well, I would have gotten away with it if it weren't for those meddling kids." - from any villain in Scooby Doo, but here's the original quote: "And I would have gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for those kids!" Also, Mr. Hat is on his left hand.