A Body to Die For: the Aaron Henry Story (1994, TV) - An "afternoon special" starring Ben Affleck. He plays a high school kid wants to be popular and play football, but he's doesn't have strength, size or stamina. A guy at the gym "hooks him up" with steroids and, in ten weeks he's all buff and angry, smacking around his girlfriend and yelling at his mom. He attempted suicide and suffered two heart attacks, bleeding kidneys, and kidney stones.
"They don't show up in our urine tests." - "They" are a new kind of steroid. This is similar to a new kind of cocaine that drug-sniffing aren't supposed to detect in Starsky and Hutch. Illegal-drug makers are always looking for new ways to thwart law enforcement - always one or two steps ahead of the law.
Cartman now has a picture of Mel Gibson's Braveheart behind the door.
One of the books Cartman pores over is Finnegan's Shake, lampooning James Joyce's Finnegans Wake.
Jimmy has a poster for The Six Billion Dollar Man, a lampoon of The Six Million Dollar Man, a TV series about a man who was made better, stronger, faster with the use of bionics, or bioelectronics, electronics used to enhance a person's senses and/or physical prowess. The Six Million Dollar Man is named for the amount of money spent making and installing the bionics in him - the first step to cyborgs. His name was Steve Austin, and he had superhearing, supersight, superspeed, superstrength, and other superlatives that made him comparable to Superman.
Some boys do masturbate when they're as young as nine.
Jimmy's great mistake throughout the episode is not zipping up his duffle bag.
"Look, it's my body and it's my choice...!" - immediate resonance with abortion-rights (or pro-choice) supporters. The rest of Jimmy's sentence reveals his feelings about what he puts into his body.
Jimmy's last name is now Valmor, not Swanson, and he now has has a girlfriend - whom he beat up in a rage.
Cartman's great mistake throughout the episode is assuming that handicapped athletes were utterly handicapped. They may not be as able as normal folk, but they are certainly more able than people think they are. They sure showed Cartman! :D
Though the way his legs are drawn don't seem to permit Jimmy to stand up at all, he has no trouble doing so in the clean-and-jerk and in the triple jump. Could be them steroid stiffen his legs enough to support weight for short periods.
Jimmy wears 053, Cartman wears 109, and Timmy wears "Taking steroids is just like pretending to be handicapped at the Special Olympics" - each one alters your appearance and behavior, no matter the reason for doing so.
All Special Olympians get medals, for participating. Eunice Kennedy Shriver is Founder and Honorary Chairman of the Special Olympics
Things seen before: the sports montage ("Asspen"), the subtle accusatory speech ("Butters' Very Own Episode," "Proper Condom Use"), and Cartman's greed, of course.
This page shows before and after pictures of Barry Bonds and Mark McGuire, as well as José Canseco and Ken Caminiti. This report mentions Giambi under suspicion, considering that he's lost quite a bit of weight since last season.
Notice the alliteration among these suspected steroid users: BB for Barry Bonds, MM for Mark McGuire, JJ for Jason Giambi (G has a J sound in there), KK for Ken Caminiti (K sound in Caminiti)