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• Barring Cartman's fake flashback in "Fourth Grade", this is the final episode to feature the 3rd grade classroom, as well as the final episode to feature Mr. Wyland as Mr. Garrison's replacement.
• This episode satirizes the two similar controversies about the state flags of Mississippi and Georgia.
• The promo for this episode featured a scene where Chef protests with Tolkien Black and his family for the flag to be changed. This is not present in the final episode. Wendy's voice in the promo while she is talking to Bebe is also more monotonous than in the final episode.
• When two men are talking about the ball game interfering with the date of the protest, two pairs of feet are seen next to them which connect to two women's bodies as they come out of the supermarket.
• Mr. Garrison insists he is not a racist or a Klan member in this episode. However, he was seen in "Here Comes the Neighborhood" trying to get the "richers" (who were all black) out of South Park by using Ku Klux Klan techniques (such as dressing up in their robes or burning crosses) and reveals with his last line of the episode that his intentions were purely racist.
• This episode is one of three where Wendy is seen without her trademark beret. The other two are "Funnybot" and "The Scoots".
• Chef's act of burning a monk in protest is a reference to the self-immolation of Thích Quảng Đức in 1963, a Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist monk who burned himself in a similar fashion.
• 'Nanners' is British slang for "bananas" (only in certain parts of the UK, though). To "go bananas" means to go crazy.
• Channel 4 News reports 3 citizens are for changing the flag, 3 are against changing the flag, and 4,382 are undecided, making the population of South Park approximately 4388.
• The debate teams are Stan, Kyle, Kenny, Craig, Tweek, Francis and Pete Thelman who want to keep the flag and Wendy, Cartman, Tolkien, Butters, Clyde, Red, Bebe, Kevin Stoley, Boy with Red Shirt and Blue Pants and Bradley Biggle who want to change the flag.
• Tweek is briefly shown without eyebrows in the classroom. This is the first instance of this happening before he is permanently not shown with them in class starting from Season Six.
• Stone and Parker dislike this episode, as they had admitted it was rushed so that since they wanted to leave early for the holiday weekend.^{[citation needed]}
• Chef changes his name to "Abdul Mohammed Jabar Rauf Kareem Ali", of which "Abdul" is a literal translation of "servant the/of" meaning his name would be "(the) servant of Mohammed Jabar Rauf Kareem Ali". This name is common in Muslim communities since the name Abdul refers to Allah (God), and can be combined with the name Allah (Written as Abdullah) or the other 99 names of God in the Muslim faith, for example, Abdul-Hakim, Abdul-Jabbar, and Abdul-Jameel.

References to Popular Culture

• During Chef and Jimbo's meeting with Mayor McDaniels at the beginning of the episode, Jimbo, who is not in favor of changing the South Park flag, mentions the Major League Baseball team, the Cleveland Indians, stating that they shouldn't change their name over concerns of it being racially insensitive, because it is part of the team's history.
  • Years later, the team would change their name to the Cleveland Guardians in 2021.

Goofs

• In the opening scene, the South Park flag's text is written in white when it is first unrolled. However, in the closeup that immediately follows, the text is written in black. This is corrected when it airs on demand.
• Mr. Wyland says that eight members of the class are for changing the flag and eight against but when shown, Wendy and Cartman's group has ten members and Stan and Kyle's group has seven members.
  • The class has only fourteen students. Among the students not shown in the classroom but on the different debate teams are Bebe, Tolkien, Bradley, the boy with red shirt and blue pants, and Pete (who is a third grader).
• During the part when the whole class were about to give their debate speech, Wendy was sitting on her chair properly. After she kissed Cartman and finished her speech, she stands on her chair throughout the rest of the scene.

Kenny's Death

Kenny explodes after eating a bowl of Kyle's dad's antacids tablets (thinking they were mints) and drinking a glass of water. Following a brief pause, everybody in the room bursts out laughing and clapping, and Stan says, "That was a good one." This is one of many times that Stan and Kyle do not say "Oh, my God! They killed Kenny!"/"You bastards!"

Hidden Visitor(s)

The hidden visitor is behind a tree, partially hidden by a shadow.

When Chef notices Jimbo and Ned's KKK outfits, behind a tree, partially hidden by a shadow.

Dubbing Changes

International Titles

Language	Title	Translation
Czech	Boj o rasistickou vlajku	The fight for the racist flag
Finnish	Kokin kapina	Chef's rebellion
French	Chef pète les plombs	Chef freaks out
German	Flaggenkrieg	Flag war
Hungarian	Séf tévedése	Chef's mistake
Italian	Chef va fuori di testa	Chef freaks out
Japanese	恋のためらい ウェンディとカートマン (Koinotamerai u~endi to kātoman)	Hesitation in love - Wendy and Cartman
Polish	Krucjata Szefa	Chef crusade
Russian	Шеф теряет терпение (Shef teryayet terpeniye)	Chef gets impatient
Spanish (Latin America)	Chef se vuelve loco	Chef goes crazy
Ukrainian	Шеф втрачає терпіння (Shef vtrachaye terpinnya)	Chef loses patience

Mandarin Chinese

• The episode's focus on racism is replaced with the death penalty in Taiwan.
• The past debate topics brought up during class are replaced with teams named after various creatures such as an eagle, a cockroach and a dragon.
• All of Jimbo's exclamations before shooting are altered such that the full sentences make grammatical sense (e.g. "市旗一改，我们就得……去死！", "If the flag is changed, then we will... DIE!").
• While explaining the history of the flag to the boys, Ned brings up the February 28 incident.
• Chef's changed name is written as "阿匾士格 豬八懦夫 阿里不打" (Ā biǎn shì gé zhū bā nuòfū ālǐ bù dǎ), "which sounds like 阿扁是個 豬八懦夫 阿里不達" (A Bian is greedy, cowardly and shady).
• During the news report outside City Hall, one of the interviewees brings up a building fire that occurred in May 12, 2001, and believes that "the cost to change the flag should have been spent on the victims of the fire."
• Instead of using Nazi Germany as a rebuttal, Cartman suggests using Taiwanese serial killer Chen Jinxing for their debate.