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• Trey Parker mentioned in the DVD commentaries that this was one of his all-time favorite episodes.
• Eric Stough, director of animation and producer, was credited as "Eric Leopold Stotch", referring to how Butters is based on Eric Stough.
• Eliza J. Schneider does not provide any voices for this episode nor is she listed in the end credits.
• As this episode shows Kyle Broflovski's birthday, it can be assumed that he is either 9 or 10 from this point on.
• Frederick Johnson's van is seen in the town's dump.
• Cartman sings the words "Casa Bonita" to the melody of La Cucaracha.
• When Cartman dreams of Casa Bonita, Jarabe Tapatío plays.
• The following episodes are shown in the montage where Cartman ripped on Kyle for being Jewish (in order):
  • "Oh yeah, well you're a stupid Jew!" - "Professor Chaos"
  • "You're a Jew…" - "Mr. Hankey, the Christmas Poo"
  • "Shut your god-damned Jew mouth!" - "The Simpsons Already Did It"
  • "Good job, Jew!" - "The Entity"
  • "Jews..." - "Mr. Hankey's Christmas Classics"
  • "Shut up, Jew!" - "Here Comes the Neighborhood"
  • "You're Jewish!" - "Something You Can Do with Your Finger"
  • "Dude, he's Jewish!" - "Do the Handicapped Go to Hell?"
  • "Jew!" - "Lil' Crime Stoppers"
  • "Jew!" - "Free Hat"
  • "Jew!" - "Kenny Dies"
  • "Jew!" - "Child Abduction is Not Funny"
  • "Jew!" - "A Ladder to Heaven"
  • "Jew!" - "Fun with Veal"
  • "Jew!" - "Spontaneous Combustion"
  • "I told you Jewish people don't have rhythm." - "Rainforest Shmainforest"
• The result of Cartman's calculations of how long it would take the meteor to collide with Earth is roughly 5.501408748 (assuming 10¹ is in base 10 and then converted into base 9).

References to Popular Culture

• Casa Bonita is a real world restaurant in Denver, Colorado. Unusually, the restaurant allowed their unaltered name to be used on South Park.
• Parts of this episode may parody the Fallout video game series (which in turn takes several references from the film "A Boy and His Dog"), such as the post-apocalyptic world Butters thought he awoke to and the dog he befriends, a possible reference to Dogmeat.
• When he is in the bunker and scrapyard, Butters Stotch sings "If You Leave Me Now" by Chicago.
• Cartman gives Butters a box of Chips-A-Ho! cookies, a parody of Chips Ahoy!.

Continuity

• Butters makes reference to this episode later in "AWESOM-O".
• Cartman is finally invited to Casa Bonita, along with all of his classmates, in the later episode "You Have 0 Friends".

Goofs

• Cartman says to Butters that a cannibal bit off his hand, but later, when Butters can see, he does not realize that Cartman's hand is supposed to be missing.
• When Kyle explains, why he takes Butters instead of Cartman he says "I'm gonna take Butters. He invited me to his birthday party last month, so I owe him one." but Butter's birthday is on September 11 and Kyle's on May 26 which means there are more than 7 months between their birthdays, not one.
• While in Stan's house, Kyle is seen with his gloves. However, when Kyle crosses his arms, the gloves are missing.

Dubbing Changes

International Titles

Language	Title	Translation
Hungarian	Casa Bonita, a mexikói étterem	Casa Bonita, the Mexican restaurant
Japanese	仁義なきカサ・ボニータ (Jingi naki kasa bonīta)	Casa Bonita without honor
	DVD title: カサ・ボニータ バトル・ロワイヤル (Kasa bonīta batoru rowaiyaru)	Casa Bonita Battle Royale

Common

• In the Polish and Mandarin Chinese dubs, after Cartman gets caught after jumping off the cliff, the cops tell him that he has a trial and if he is found guilty, he would be sentenced to a week of juvenile.

Italian

• In the news report on Butters going missing, the field reporter starting line of "Tom..." is changed to "Good day, everyone."

Mandarin Chinese

• Casa Bonita is named "凱達格藍" (Kǎi dá gé lán), named after Ketagalan, an indigenous Taiwanese people.
• In the montage of Cartman calling Kyle "Jew", all instances of "Jew" are replaced with 小菊花 (Xiǎo jú huā), a slang term for "asshole".
• While asking advice to act nice to people, Jimmy's telling of jokes are replaced with actual advice of helping people.
• Cartman's calculations are changed to "the differential of the square root of pi plus 5".
• Butters is reported by the police to be 8 years old. This is not possible as he had been admitted to the fourth-grade class since "Fourth Grade".
• Cartman's story of "toxic radiation" is changed to "flooding due to melting polar ice caps".
• All mentions of "cannibals" by Cartman are replaced with "vampires".