"Aw I'm surprised at you, Stanley. I really thought you knew how to accept people for what they were." - Randy's right. Stan was the first to learn tolerance and acceptance of gays back in episode 104, "Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride."
The Museum of Tolerance parodies the actual Museum of Tolerance at the Simon Wiesenthal Center, a museum in Los Angeles which focuses "on the dynamics of racism and prejudice in America" (this quote is used in the episode) and the history of the Holocaust (see the death camp reference following). The female tour guide at the Museum was wearing a Magen David (Star of David) necklace.
| QUEER, FAGGOT | homosexual
| BEANER | Mexican. Beans are a staple food in Mexican households
| NIGGER | Black person. A corruption of Negro
| HEEB | Hebrew, Jew
| CRACKER | White person, from Georgia Cracker, a Georgia peanut farmer.
| SLOPE | Oriental, from the shape of the eyes on one
| CHINK | Chinese person, from their days of building railroads. It's the sound of a hammer against a railroad nail.
| JAP | Japanese person
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An exothermic reaction releases heat as it occurs, so it feels warm to the touch. An endothermic reaction absorbs heat, and so feels cold to the touch.
The gerbil skeleton is present when Lemmiwinks walks away from the sphincter the first time, missing the second time, present the third time. Also, another skeleton is present a little further along, embracing a treasure chest full of gold.
Mark Cotswolds is present among the truant kids in tolerance camp.
From Thats My Bush!: "S.D.I. Aye Aye!"
| [The President is without cable at the White House and Laura is looking for channels for him to look at while they wait for the cable guy to show up. All the channels she comes up with mention the word "gay."] | |
| Lemmiwinks: | [on TV] Hey, I'm your pal, Lemmiwinks the Squirrel. |
| Laura: | [hands George the remote control] See? You can watch Lemmiwinks. [walks away] |
| Kids: | [on TV] Yay, Lemmiwinks! [George sits down on the sofa to watch] |
| Lemmiwinks: | [on TV] I wish I had a mouth full of nuts. |
| George: | Oh, not you too, Lemmiwiiinks! |
Which brings up an interesting question: Just what was Lemmiwinks supposed to be? He's described as a gerbil but looks like a rat, and in Thats My Bush! he's a squirrel.
More reverse digestion: First it was butt-faces eating, then it was eating with you butt and crapping out your mouth, now it's a gerbil entering the ass and being vomited out the mouth.
We don't get to know what the Catatafish's riddle is.
The song Mr. Garrison is humming when he rides in on Mr. Slave is "On The Trail" from the Grand Canyon Suite by Ferde Grofé.
The death camp of tolerance parodies Schindler's List, with the black-and-white footage and Cartman crapping on the two girls hiding in the Porto-Potty.
The Lemmiwinks subplot is a parody of the Rankin/Bass version of The Hobbit (a Tolkien reference, related to Lord of the Rings), music and all, although the gerbil didn't speak. A few reports on the Web also indicate that the later parts of the subplot bear a striking resemblance to Redwall
The catatafish is dressed as a shogun wears a gun on his left side, the sparrow prince wears a sword.
That the death camp was one of tolerance highlights a truism about liberalism, which is all for tolerance - that liberals only support tolerance so that their voices - and only their voices - can be heard. Anyone disagreeing with them might as well shut up, such is their intolerance to other views. It follows that extreme tolerance leads to forced acceptance.
Butters might have been pleased to know that Lemmiwinks didn't die inside Mr. Slave after all, but he was long gone by the time Lemmiwinks dropped out of Mr. Slave's mouth.