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• This was Dr. Mephesto's last speaking role until the Season Fourteen episode, "201". Since this episode, he had only appeared as a background character. Trey Parker later commented that by this point he and Matt Stone simply did not find the character funny anymore, and that, in retrospect, they should have made him a member of the real NAMBLA and written him out permanently in this episode.
• Kevin McCormick mysteriously does not appear, despite this episode focusing on Kenny's family. Because of this, Kenny was depicted as an only child in this episode.
• The two main agents are the same agents from the Season Three episode "Starvin' Marvin in Space".
• Since 2002, this episode has aired with a redone soundtrack by Scott Nickoley and Jamie Dunlap, who have composed original background music for the series since Season Five. The HBO Max version retains the redone score. The episode with its original score is currently only available on the Season Four DVD.
  • This episode is also the only episode from the first four seasons to have its soundtrack redone by Nickoley and Dunlap.
• The "Get it Outa Me" brand abortion pills, ironically, had the picture of conservative Phyllis Schlafly who opposed abortion rights and fought against the Equal Rights Amendment in the 1970s.
• Cartman's username is "BigBoned", a reference to his belief that he is not fat, but big boned.
• The restaurant that appears when Cartman sees Tony316 is the same as the one seen in "Tom's Rhinoplasty", when Stan has dinner with Ms. Ellen.
• This was the first episode of Season Four not to have '2000' in the name.
• The music playing during the "North Park Funland" commercial is the same music from the commercials for "Wild Wacky Action Bike" and "Alabama Man" on the Season Three episode, "Chinpokomon". Cartman took over the same theme park in "Cartmanland", a future episode.
• Cartman was a model before, in "Roger Ebert Should Lay off the Fatty Foods".
• When the other boys say "Yeah!" upon Stan telling Cartman to get them out of the NAMBLA group, Timmy appears to be saying it just fine.
• The website name that the two NAMBLA's fight over in the episode is nambla.com but the real NAMBLA has nambla.org as their site.

• After Cartman begins typing on the man-boy chat site, on the ensuing responses, when slowed, some responses can be read. Some include, "this is gay", "tits", "help me", and "get a life".
• Aside from this episode, pedophilia has been a subject of South Park in other episodes such as "World Wide Recorder Concert", "Red Hot Catholic Love", "The Return of Chef", "The Jeffersons", and "Le Petit Tourette".
• When chatting with HungDaddy, Cartman interprets 8.5 inches for height instead of its true meaning penis size, which makes him think that the man is a dwarf.
• This is one of the few times where Kenny's parents do not fight or argue with each other while together onscreen.

References to Popular Culture

• The John Denver Experience ride is a reference to the death of John Denver, who died in a tragic plane crash.
• The song playing during the chase scene is "Page d'écriture" by Yves Montand.
• The chase scene is styled after The Benny Hill Show, a risque comedy from the 1970s.
• The door chase scene is a reference to Scooby-Doo.
• In Kenny's dream, a mutant baby is a parody of the antagonist, Chris Davis, from Larry Cohen's 1974 horror film It's Alive.

Continuity

• This episode explains Kenny's resurrections after his constant deaths; his mother gives birth to a baby identical to Kenny and he rapidly ages and retrieves his former memories and appearance. While this theory is inconsistent with "Cartman's Mom is Still a Dirty Slut", in which Kenny reappeared out of thin air in a magical fashion, it is likely the one that was adopted by the writers as it was expanded further in Season Fourteen's Superheroes Saga.
• At the start of the episode, Cartman plays a card in the Bill Kurtis game to give Kyle AIDS. In an episode that aired much later, "Tonsil Trouble", Cartman would actually infect Kyle with the AIDS virus.

Goofs

• In the opening scene where the boys are playing the Bill Kurtis-themed version of Monopoly, Bill Kurtis' name is spelled correctly on the board; however, it is spelled incorrectly as "Curtis" on the box for the game. This game is seen again in "Up the Down Steroid".
• Throughout the episode, Carol McCormick's shirt constantly changes from "I'm With Stupid" to "God Bless America".
• When Kenny is in the pharmacy, the green boxes of abortion pills say Fetus away, when they are shown up close, they say Fetus Flusher, then they change back to Fetus Away again.
• In the sequence with The John Denver Experience, the soundtrack makes it sound like everyone was screaming, but the McCormicks were the only ones reacting to the bumpy ride.
• When Kyle and Stan arrive at the NAMBLA party, the man Kyle is with has on a plaid jacket and gray undershirt, yet when he is sitting at the table, his shirt is black.
• Cartman was in the middle of typing his message on the chat room when he started getting messages from older men. It is unknown how they could have known he was a child before he sent the message.
• When Cartman is posing for photos as NAMBLA's posterchild, "I L♥VE NAMBLA!" disappears from the curtain in the last photo.
• During Cartman's first chat, the numeric keyboard changes sides in the last scene.
• Tony316 is not among the people seen in the pop-ups responding to Cartman.
• In the shots before and after the police raid the North American Marlon Brando Look Alikes meeting hall, the banner above Dr. Alphonse Mephesto says "North American Marlon Brando Look Alike." The text changes to "North American Marlon Brando Look Alikes" when Dr. Mephesto points to the banner.
• Mr. Garrison leaves the cell without FBI permission and later on attends the NAMBLA meeting.
• When the boys are shocked at Cartman saying one of them needs to get molested by the NAMBLA men, Louis Handler does not have his scarf.

Kenny's Death

• In the last of Kenny's nightmares, the monster baby comes at Kenny and slashes him to death with its claws. His father then says "Oh my god! It killed Kenny" while his mother says "bad baby".
• Kenny is killed by an ambulance that is rushing Stuart McCormick to the hospital after he was molested by the pedophiles.

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International Titles

Language	Title	Translation
Czech	Cartman hledá vyspělé kámoše	Cartman is looking for mature friends
Finnish	Cartman uusilla urilla	Cartman with new grooves
French	Cartman s'inscrit à la NAMBLA	Cartman is registered with NAMBLA
German	Kennys Karma 52	Kenny's karma 52
Hungarian	Cartman a NAMBLA tagja	Cartman is a member of NAMBLA
Italian	Giù le zampe dai bambini	Paws off the children
Japanese	少年愛好会NAMBLA (Shōnen aikō-kai NAMBLA)	Young boy's love club NAMBLA
Mandarin Chinese	阿ㄆ一ㄚˇ加入全雞會 (Ā pǐa jiārù quán jī huì)	Cartman joins NAMBLA
Polish	Cartman wstępuje do NAMBL-i	Cartman joins NAMBLA
Portuguese (Brazil)	Cartman entra para a ASNAMB (Associação De Sósias Norte-Americanos Do Marlon Brando)	Cartman Joins NAMBLA (North American Marlon Brando Look-Alikes)
Russian	Картман вступает в NAMBLA (Kartman vstupayet v NAMBLA)	Cartman joins NAMBLA
Spanish (Latin America)	Cartman se une a NAMBLA	Cartman joins NAMBLA
Spanish (Spain)	Cartman ensambla en NAMBLA	Cartman joins in NAMBLA
Ukrainian	Картман вступає в NAMBLA	Cartman enters NAMBLA

Common

• Instead of "eight and a half inches", chat room user "HungDaddy" reports other lengths in the following dubs:
  • French: 25 cm (9.84 inches)
  • German: 22 cm (8.66 inches)
  • Hungarian and Ukrainian: 21 cm (8.27 inches)
  • Japanese: 21.5 cm (8.47 inches)
  • Mandarin Chinese: 35 cm (13.77 inches)
• The singing voice behind "Page d'écriture" is removed in the Hungarian and Ukrainian dubs, retaining only the music.

French

• The catchphrase from the South Park Inn Waiter is changed to "Qu'est-ce qu'il se passe?" ("What is going on?").

German

• "HungDaddy" is renamed to Langer Lümmel (lit. "Long rascal"). Lümmel is a slang word for "penis".
• Translation voiceover is provided for the names of all birth control pills, albeit with echoing sound effects.
• Among the birth control products, "Pregnant No More" is renamed to Schwanger, nein danke ("Pregnant, no thanks").
• All lyrics to "Page d'écriture" are translated into German.

Hungarian

• Stuart's line during the chase scene is removed.

Japanese

• Among the birth control products, only the "Get it Outa Me" is not given a translated name.
• The song "Page d'écriture" is re-recorded in this dubbing. There are several errors in this recording.
  • Incorrect pronunciation of the last syllable from the last word of some lines:
    • "Deux et deux quatre" sung as "Deux et deux quatra"
    • "huit et huit font seize" sung as "huit et huit font seiza"
    • "Répétez! dit le maître" sung as "Répétez! dit le maîtra"
  • Using different words in the lyrics:
    • "et joue avec l'enfant" sung as "et joue avec descend"
    • "ils s'en vont" sung as "ils la vont"
    • "à leur tour fichent le camp" sung as "à leur seize, deux et deux"

Mandarin Chinese

• The acronym "NAMBLA" is renamed to a three-word abbreviation of "Quán jī huì".
  • The first NAMBLA is known as "全鸡会", full name "全国鸡奸孩童同好联盟" (Pinyin: Quánguó jījiān háitóng tónghào liánméng, lit. National Sodomizing Children Alliance).
  • The "other NAMBLA" is known as "全基会", full name "全国基因研究会" (Quánguó jīyīn yánjiū huì, lit. National Genetic Research Association).
• The board game of Investigative Reports with Bill Kurtis is titled "我是行政院长" (Wǒ shì xíng zhèng yuàn zhǎng, lit. I am the President of the Executive Yuan), with the central figure parodying former Premier of the Republic of China (Taiwan), Chang Chun-hsiung.
  • Cartman plays an "Interpellation" card on Stan, and asks if he will "attend" or "resign".
  • When the central figure is played, it calls out to "resign and receive a three-day jail sentence".
  • Kyle plays a "fire disaster" card on Cartman, which loses the latter ten turns.
• The "Get it Outa Me" abortion pills are renamed to "老女人刺激片" (Stimulating pills for elderly women).
• The John Denver Experience ride is renamed to "My Vice-President is an Alien".
• In NAMBLA's dinner event, Butters mentions that he applies "SK8" on his skin everyday for six minutes. This product parodies the cosmetics brand SK-II.
• The lyrics to "Page d'écriture" are rewritten to reference the events preceding the chase scene, where the NAMBLA members attempt to make love with the children.

Spanish (Latin America)

• The acronym "NAMBLA" in the Latin American dub is renamed to "Niños Amados por Maricas Bellas Libres de America", lit. "Children Loved by Free Pretty Fags of America".

Ukrainian

• Scratching sound effects are added onto the dance music at the NAMBLA dinner event.