The Secrets of
"Hooked On Monkey Fonics"

Cartman is one of the best spellers in South Park Elementary?

As you may have guessed, "Krocsyldiphithic" is not a real word. It just sounds real on TV.

Rebecca Cotswolds is based on

Rebecca A. Sealfon, a Brooklyn girl born in 1983 who, on May 29, 1997, won the Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee Championship. Her winning word was "euonym." Her major quirk was whispering the letters of a word into her hands as if into a book before saying them aloud (she did not use her hands during the final round). She was sponsored by the New York Daily News. She was taught in home school after finding public school too slow for her taste. In the fall of 1997 she entered Stuyvesant High School. Is her last name of Slovenian origin? Below is an answer: From Irena Jakopanec Many of us, Slovenian worshipers of South Park, were surprised to find Slovenian flag on Rebecca's door. However, I don't think that Cotswolds is Slovenian surname. (We don't have a letter w in our alphabet and also Kocvald, as it would be written in Slovene, doesn't sound Slovene. Might be Kocbek, our writer, but that's another thing.) Neither is Sealfon a Slovenian surname. So, the question remains - why is there Slovenian flag on Rebecca's door?! We don't even have the practice of home schools! Regards from Slovenia, irena Below are the words Sealfon was given on her way to "euonym":

Round No.	Correct Spelling	Contestant's Spelling
1	sesquicentennial	sesquicentennial
2	inducement	inducement
3	prejudicial	prejudicial
4	vaporetto	vaporetto
5	bivouac	bivouac
6	grosgrain	grosgrain
7	hippogriff	hippogriff
8	desquamate	desquamate
9	penury	penury
10	vernissage	vernissage
11	typhlology	typhlology
12	accumbent	accumbent
13	examen	examen
14	nomothetic	nomothetic
15	niello	niello
16	duenna	duenna
17	dulcinea	dulcenilla *
18	sufflaminate	sufflaminate
19	deliquesce	deliquesce
20	bourgade	bourgade
21	anglophilia	anglophilia
22	coterie	coterie
23	euonym	euonym

* Prem Murthy Trivedi spelled "analemma" as "annalemma", so neither was eliminated in this round.

Home-schoolees, take note: fighting and name-calling are not signs of enmity if the people involved do not part ways.

Mr. Cotswolds said that the trophys were going to go on the mantel, but they appear atop the china closet instead.

Address: 10477. The front door has two deadbolts installed between the doorknob and the top of the door. And the windows are barred. A latch is added later. The parents must have moved in from Denver.

"You got some kind of John Travolta disease?" - In the 1975 TV-film The Boy In The Plastic Bubble, John Travolta played Tod Lubitch, the boy who had a deficient immune system and who had to spend his childhood in a hermetically sealed room with clear plastic walls, and thus in a home-school environment. Based on a true story.

This is the third episode in which Wendy goes out to the playground with red hair and no beret, so it now a constant.

"We're gonna duct-tape you to the bench" - In fifth grade Trey Parker duct-taped a boy to a bench and left him there all day. The boy was reported missing, and once found, tried to convice the teachers he duct-taped himself to the bench.

How did Mark manage to get his feet to the ground when he was duct taped? If he could do that, then he could've gotten the bench off altogether.

Even the sweetest kids can get mean if they feel their intelligence is being insulted. Given what Mr. Garrison said about Mark being able to "flunk all these little bastards," one can understand why Butters and Tweek acted the way they did in the playground.

The picture above the sofa in the Cotswolds living room is made entirely from vegetables, then photographed. It was used in print ads to showcase the resolution a certain printer could produce.

Whoa! Kyle went much further with Rebecca than Stan ever did with Wendy.

Besides Rebecca's door is a graphic of a chemical formula: CH₃COOH, or acetic acid. And behind the door hangs the Slovenian flag.

The reason the monkey was so ruthless to Kenny was that it got a sugar rush from the Snacky S'mores it was eating. Fonics monkeys still require an appropriate diet, and sweets are not part of that diet. Feeding such foods to monkeys, or other wild animals, yields unpredictable results.

Bay of Pigs

On Apr. 17, 1961, about 1,500 Cuban exiles landed in the Bahía de Cochinos (Bay of Pigs) with the aim of ousting the Communist regime of Fidel CASTRO. They had been trained in Guatemala by the CIA, supplied with U.S. arms. Most were captured or killed by the Cuban army. The U.S. government was severely criticized for the attack at home and abroad. In December 1962, Cuba traded 1,113 captured rebels for $53 million in food and medicine raised by private donations in the U.S.

Star Trek reference: "The Gamesters of Triskelion." The interaction between Kyle and Rebecca, from "Rebecca, don't you ever… look at the town?" to their kiss, mirrors that between Capt. Kirk and Shahna. That, the background music, and Jimbo betting on Kyle to win the spelling bee.

Kyle wanted to take Rebecca to the dance himself, but it never worked out that way, despite his efforts.

Ronnie James Dio was the lead singer in Black Sabbath in 1982 and 1992. His logo is designed in such a way that flipping it yields "Devil." He has no credits in the episode, but his official Web site announced that he would be on the show. "Holy Diver" is Dio's 1983 debut album.

Mark sounds like Gregory with a softer accent, but his voice changes as he loses composure.

Wendy dances near Tweek before Dio starts singing. During the song, Wendy and Tweek dance with each other.

Kelly is present at the dance. So are a few kids from the movie. Some of the kids dance the way the Peanuts gang does in A Charlie Brown Christmas (Wendy and Bebe dance the way the twins do).

Bloopers Mark is seated among the spelling bee contestants for a moment before he is formally introduced. After the spelling bee ends, the buildings behind Stan, Cartman and Kenny lose some features. Tom's Rhinoplasty's sign is missing, as are the two windows on the building next door. Mark appears among the kids in the gym for a moment, but no one notices him. He walks into the gym soon after Dio begins playing. The plan was for the boys to duct-tape Mark to the flagpole, but when Kyle enters, Stan said they're going to duct-tape Mark to the bleachers. Is this an error, or were the boys going to duct-tape Mark twice? Red is dancing with Token when Rebecca passes by and gooses him, but Red is next to Kyle, almost off-screen, after Rebecca leaves. Butters can teleport. After Mark ends his speech to the the students at the dance, Butters appears with the kids on the gym floor, then with the adults near the entrance in the very next scene. The Town, It Is A-Changin' Ever since the movie came out, there have been changes in the town. Mr. Garrison has knuckled down to straight teaching (so far, no loopy statements). Stan's voice has deepened, as has Cartman's (this may be because 8-year olds, like the ones Trey and Matt used on the fake commercials in "Chinpokomon," don't have such high voices). Kyle finally falls in love. Kenny is less perverted (I guess people got too good at deciphering what he said). Less bleepin' bleeps. Some fans have noticed that the show is not as vulgar as it used to be, that is it mellower, tamer. Others have welcomed the show's turn towards satire, parody, obscure references, and subtler humor. This indicates that the show is maturing, and that may have prepared its fans for the unfortunate death of Mary Kay Bergman. And now that she has passed on, the changes to come to town will be tremendous. Saturday Correction A scene changes. Check it out. [The Cartman house, afternoon. Cartman is in bed with a bag of chips.] Cartman: [sighing drowsily] Eeehhh. On Wednesday's airing, this happened next: Announcer: Welcome to Huntin' and Killin' with Jimbo and Ned. On Saturday's airing, this happened next: Announcer: It's your Hour of Power on Mission Mountain Cable Access! Put your hands together and welcome the only man in town who always has a fully-stocked wine cellar, Jeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesus Christ. As you can tell, they were watching a repeat of the Jesus and Pal show from "The Mexican Staring Frog of Southern Sri Lanka."