The earliest I recall anyone taking home economics or shop class at school when I grew up was seventh grade, not third. It was also in seventh grade that we got different teachers throughout the day instead of one teacher and a coach. I suppose these days, all this happens in sixth grade.
When Mr. Adler picks up his girlfriend's picture, it reverses itself horizontally. The woman is Pam Brady, consulting producer.
Stan on Kenny: "I don't know. He's such a wuss." - In the first season, Stan was usually the wuss, being beat up by his sister all the time. Here, Kenny avoids the shop room, knowing the dangers the tools may pose. Sure enough…
Mr. Adler's girlfriend was a small-plane pilot, a sky-writer.
Trey and Matt said that scenes they had to cut from the movie would be recycled in the series. Here's one instance a scene apppears in both: the kids coming up over a hill in the playground for the fight between Tweek and Craig is similar to one where La Resistance comes up over a hill in the heat of battle in the movie.
Big's Gym offers boxing, but "NO TAI BO". It should've said, "NO TAE BO", which is the latest martial arts exercise craze.
I didn't know scratching and biting, and bar room brawling, were martial arts.
The plane was flying much too fast for Mr. Adler's finacee to write "I love U Richard," much less the A's that followed her screams into the pool. Nice editing.
Terrence, Mephesto's son, returns for this episode.
Belt sander made by Black and Wrecker.
The saw Kenny goes to work on is not a jigsaw.
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I didn't find what all the fuss was about. A rigged school fight? A shop teacher contemplating suicide only to be redemmed by Kenny's death? There was nothing dark in Mr. Adler's past except his fiancée's dying in a plane accident, and nothing embarrassing about him going into reveries over it. The kids hardly commented on it. No hint of guns or dark intentions. Or maybe the episode was revamped to remove all such references. On the other hand, the emotion of the Littleton moment may have been enough to hold this episode back.
As the episode progresses, you realize that Mr. Adler's concern with his students' safety around power tools stems from his girlfriend's accidental death.