The Secrets of 'Death'

by Wild Willie Westwood, with sources from all over the Web

While Cartman is watching Terrance and Phillip, you can see a picture of him and his mother at Mount Rushmore.

PROPERTIES OF A TYPICAL WHITE DWARF

Mass: 1.0M
Surface temp: 10,000 K
Diameter: 0.008D (1.0D)
Density: 5 x 105 G
Luminosity: 2x1031ERG/SEC (0.005L)


        Hot Lunch Menu        

  1. Big Beef Brisket
    w/ gravy

  2. Chinese Duck Salad
    w/ gravy

Grandpa's Boom Box

  1. The song Grandpa plays on the boom box for Stan is a parody of Enya's "Orinoco Flow", called "Gonna Fly"
  2. Grandpa inserts a cassette tape into the boom box, but the boom box shows "CD" on the front. This can be explained thusly: the CD player is located along the top face of the boom box, but its display panel is below the tuner's. The tape deck usually has no LED readout like the CD deck does.
The first person flung into the side of Cartoon Central is Mr. McCormick, Kenny's father. Maybe that's why Kenny's death was not as extreme this time. And maybe it shows that dying runs in the family, and that they have more lives than a cat.

Cloning hits South Park!!! - Look at the crowd carefully. Except for the people in the front row, there are two of everybody - one on the left side, and one on the right side.

Oh boy. Uh, Carol, where are the Porta-Potties? - Later on, you find that Mrs. Marsh is named Carol. Thus, Mrs. Cartman was asking Mrs. Marsh where the Porta-Potties were, but Mrs. Broflovski answered instead. In Mr. Hankey you find that Mrs. Broflovski's name is Sheila.

Death chases the boys from left to right, but stops to watch the TV's at TELE'S. The boys look over their right shoulders and go back. But instead of coming in from screen right to join Death they come in from screen left.

When the kids take temporary sanctuary in Stan's room, you can see a picture of Shelley, wearing her headgear.

Though the main story in this episode is about assisted suicide, a subplot concerns TV and cable censorship. The points of the subplot are:
  1. censorship simply makes TV less interesting for children, but not any less offensive for the parents
  2. there's nothing on TV that kids probably don't hear from their friends and family in the first place
  3. parents would do better to get involved in their children's lives than to leave them at TV's mercy
This episode last reran in 1999.