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• Whenever this episode reruns, most of its background music is missing for unknown reasons. The original version of the episode as it originally aired in 2001 with all background music can only be found on the Fifth Season DVD boxset.
• This is the first episode with Butters' name in the title.
• Although Stephen Stotch demonstrates obvious homosexual tendencies in this episode, having had several sexual encounters, he is horrified by the possibility that Butters might be bi-curious in the later episode, "Cartman Sucks". However, at the end of that episode, he admits to being a little bi-curious as well, implying that he has not fully gotten over his time of man-on-man sex.
• While in the bathhouse, looking behind doors for his father, Butters hears Mr. Garrison.
• This is one of the very few episodes to not start with the South Park Theme Song.
• This is the first appearance of Mr. Slave, although we see only part of his body. After Butters leaves the sauna where Mr. Garrison is, he opens a room with two guys, one of which is Mr. Slave, quite recognizable by his characteristic voice.
• Also, the ticket person at The White Swallow sounds very similar to Mr. Kim.
• During Stephen Stotch's confession, he goes off on a tangent that involves yelling "murderer" and "liar" while the camera pans over O.J. Simpson, the Ramseys, and Senator Gary Condit. A similar gag was employed during Jimmy's lesson speech at the end of "Up the Down Steroid".
  • Matt Stone and Trey Parker admitted that they actually felt bad and regretted the way they parodied Gary Condit and the Ramseys.
• The gas station that the old man runs is similar to the one Butters and Craig ran in "The Wacky Molestation Adventure".
• Although this season did not have a Christmas-themed episode, "Jingle Bell Rock" can be heard playing in the Stotch's car as Linda drives Butters to the river.
• None of the boys have major roles in this episode, as they only appear near the end.
  • Kyle also does not speak in this episode.
• Stan questions "Butters was missing?" when Stephen and Linda are making an announcement. This suggests that the boys do not even care about him, which is later on confirmed in Season Fifteen episode "The Last of the Meheecans", where none of the boys are aware of Butters getting lost.
• This is the first episode to directly focus on Butters.
• On DirecTV from December 12, 2001 to November 14, 2007 and on Dish Network from December 12, 2001 to April 29, 2009, the description for the episode was labeled as "When Butters is dumped into the river, Stan, Kyle, and Eric must save Butters." However, Stan, Kyle, and Eric do not appear until the ending.

References to Popular Culture

• Caricatures of John and Patricia Ramsey appear in the episode. They were indicted by a jury in Boulder, Colorado in 1999. In 2013, those files were made public for the first time. They were officially exonerated of their daughter's murder by DNA in July 2008. The real killer has never been identified.
• Gary Condit was a United States Congressman accused of murdering an intern (with whom he admitted to having an affair) in 2001. He was exonerated of the murder of Chandra Levy in 2009 after another person was indicted for the death of Condit's intern. The person was convicted in 2010 and sentenced to 60 years in prison.
• O.J. Simpson was a former actor/athlete who was tried and found not guilty of the murders of his wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman in 1994. He was later sued by the Brown and Goldman families for their wrongful death and was awarded $40 million in damages. Although there are many theories, the case remains unsolved.
• The opening song to The Butters Show is somewhat a similar rhythm and lyrics to The Simpsons' "Everyone Loves Ned Flanders" jingle.
• After finding out about her husband's activities, Linda is now extremely delusional, painting over the family portrait with green paint. Butters asks her if he should try to find out more about the present, to which she brushes paint onto Butters' face. This scene is very similar to the 1999 movie The Rage: Carrie 2 opening scene where Rachel's schizophrenic mother Barbara is painting the living room to protect her and paints her daughter's face in the same manner.
• The scene at the restaurant, where Simpson, the Ramseys, and Condit start chanting, "One of us! One of us! Gooble gobble! Gooble gobble!", is a homage to the famous scene in the 1932 horror film, Freaks.
• The events of the episode parallel the well-publicized 1994 case of Susan Smith, who committed filicide by buckling her sons into their car seats and letting her car roll off a boat ramp and into the lake.
  • Even though it is stated throughout the episode that a "Puerto Rican" man is responsible for the deaths, Susan Smith actually accused a black man of carjacking her vehicle and kidnapping her sons.
• The old man that tells Butters how to walk back to South Park is based on Jud Crandall from Pet Sematary. He appears again in "Asspen" telling the boys about the mountain "K-13", and also in "Marjorine", in which he convinces Mr. Stotch to use an Indian burial ground in an attempt to resurrect Butters who was thought to be dead at the time. He appears in "Insecurity", in which he tells the men of South Park that the UPS man is sleeping with their wives just like the milkman used to, and instructs them to get rid of him. His most recent appearance is in "The Damned " when showing Randy the Memberberries.
• When Butters is in the bathroom, the song "It Feels So Good" by Sonique is heard playing.
• Butters' parents meet the Ramseys at a buffet named I Am Siam, which is a reference to the Sean Penn / Dakota Fanning film I Am Sam which premiered the same month as this episode. The book Green Eggs and Ham also did feature prominently in the film which is where the title came from.
• When Butters stops walking on the creepy road, three laser dots appear on his forehead forming a triangle. This is a reference to Predator, but the creature seen in the woods looked to be Alien.

Continuity

• One of the articles in the newspaper Mr. Stotch is reading states "Towelie Ban Lifted". This is a reference to the comment Towelie made in the episode "Osama bin Laden Has Farty Pants".
• Stephen is referred to as Chris in this episode.

Goofs

• Shortly after Mr. Stotch walks in to find Linda about to kill herself, the picture of their family had painted over Linda and Butters, but after the camera zooms in a little, there is no paint over Butters' face.
• When Butters first enters the room due to Stephen inviting him inside to talk about white lies, Butters leaves the door open. But when the shot gets up close to Stephen and Butters climbing up on his lap, the door is suddenly closed.

Dubbing Changes

International Titles

Language	Title	Translation
Czech	Buttersova vlastní epizoda	Butters' own episode
Finnish	Butterssin ikioma jakso	Butters' very own episode
French	L'Épisode de Butters	The Butters episode
German	Butters: Das bin ich!	Butters: That's me!
Hungarian	Butters Nagyon Saját Epizódja	Butters' Very Own Episode
Italian	L'episodio di Butters	The Butters episode
Japanese	バターズ☆べりーマッチ (Batāzu beri ̄matchi)	Butters ☆ very much
Mandarin Chinese	超級白目男 (Chāojí báimù nán)	Super white-eyed boy
Polish	Odcinek Buttersa	The Butters episode
Russian	Собственный эпизод Баттерса (Sobstvennyy epizod Battersa)	Butters' Very Own Episode
Spanish (Latin America)	El Show de Butters	The Butters Show
Spanish (Spain)	El Episodio Propio (o intimo) de Butters	The own (or intimate) episode of Butters
Ukrainian	Власна серія Батерса (Vlasna seriya Batersa)	Butters' own series

Common

• When Butters goes to the spa, he buys a reduced entry ticket in the Mandarin Chinese and Polish dubs.

Hungarian

• Moaning sound effects are included as Linda reviews the photos taken by Butters.

Italian

• When Linda faints upon seeing the photos Butters took, he jokes "You fell from the clouds too?".

Mandarin Chinese

• List of plot element changes:
  • The Stotches plan to eat local snacks such as sweet potato sticks for their anniversary.
  • The alleged Puerto Rican guy is dubbed as a man who looks similar to Osama bin Laden.
• While tasking Butters to spy on Chris, Linda uses the James Bond film series as an example of how Butters should perform as such.
• The Studcat Theater is renamed to parody Taipei's Red House Theater.
• The scene of Chris masturbating at the White Swallow is censored.
• During Linda's attempted murder on Butters, the latter is observed to be actually crying for help.
• No sexual references were mentioned by the Busy Beavers truck driver, with the driver intending to get high.
• At the gas station, the stories of the haunted road are reduced, with the old mechanic only explaining the events and experiences of the lone camper.

Polish

• During the theme song "It's Butters!", he objects to the narrator implying he is in love with football players.
• When Linda faints upon seeing the photos Butters took, he jokes "Oh, how was the flight, mom? I hope I don't get your heritage!". The pun is that the Polish word "spadek" means "heritage", but is closely related to the word "spadać", which means "to fall".
• When the truck driver gives Butters a ride, he says something along the lines of "Too bad you're not a chick, because you could've made me a popsicle, I've got some real pressure building up", which Butters innocently misinterprets and replies with "Yeah, I'd also like a popsicle right now." The Polish slang of "making someone ice cream/a popsicle" is an euphemism for oral sex or fellatio.

Ukrainian

• The theme song "It's Butters!" is performed by only one singer. Every other appearance of the title card, however, is accompanied by a choir singing "Everyone know it's Butters!"
• In the theme song, the error of "John Alway" has been corrected by the singer.