Super Phun Thyme looks like a Nickelodeon attraction in an amusement park (maybe the Nickelodeon Blast Zone that used to be at Universal Studios Hollywood).
Howdy is a contraction of "How do you do" (How d'ye do > How d'ye > Howdy). Similarly, "What in tarnation?" is short for "What in the entire nation?"
The robbers are all characters from Die Hard, most notable Frans, who is a reference to Hans Gruber.
Seen' as Pioneer Village is set in 1864, the telephone would not have existed. It arrived in 1876.
There does exist a Pioneer Village in Nebraska, but it's not on Kipling. It has items up to the turn of the 20th century, so I'm sure its employees know about the early phones. :)
Heh, more backwards keybaoards. This time it's the 9-1-1 operator.
Cartman's song is a verson of Sigue Sigue Sputnik's "Love Rocket F1-11" with totally different lyrics.
The song mentioned just above was featured in Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Cartman and Butters' adventure in Super Phun Thyme is a reference to that film as well.
The motorcycle ride Cartman and Butters are on simulates the rooftop motorcycle scene in Tomorrow Never Dies, where Wai Lin has to move around Bond so the ride is as smooth as possible. Butters holding on to Cartman's hand in a firm grip substitutes for the handcuffs tying Wai Lin to Bond.
In the first airing, people noticed several Burger King commercials between the segments. Product tie in, or serendipity?
There's a bus sign near the mail box. It says SPRT BUS. SPRT is for South Park Rapid Transit, so this episode is meant to take place in South Park. It's not a little redneck mountain town anymore.
The smithy's employee profile has him named David Palmer. So why did Pioneer Paul call him Chad under his breath early in the episode?
David Palmer was a character in 24 who was President of the United States and who was later assassinated in season 5 of that show.
The lights at the traffic signal Cartman wants to climb across are facing the wrong direction. And the arm is too long, but that helps explain the traffic lights.
A carriage house is what we call a garage now. Even when cars became plentiful, there were carriage houses built alongside Queen Anne houses and cars were parked in them. Fancier carriage houses have living areas over the garage.
"Well howdy there, strangers." - Stan wasn't in Village character there. He should have used "partners."
Stan figured out that the way to transmit modern technology to 1860's folk is to use terminology they'd be familiar with. Combination safes were already around, so opening something using numbers was not unknown. They didn't need to know that it opened electrically instead of mechanically.