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Trivia

• The potential friends are Dougie O'Connell, Mark Cotswolds, Fosse McDonald, Bill Allen, Loogie, Damien Thorn, DogPoo Petuski, Pip Pirrip, Jason White, Wendy Testaburger, Bebe Stevens, Quaid, Filmore Anderson, Ike Broflovski, Tolkien Black, Craig Tucker, Clyde Donovan, Timmy Burch, Jimmy Valmer, Towelie, and Tweek Tweak.
• Eric Cartman breaks the fourth wall when referring to DogPoo as a "prop".
• The South Park Times Newspaper has stories that feature major spelling errors and repeats of sentences.
• The boys break the fourth wall when practicing the bus stop scene with Kenny's replacements.
• This episode marks Pip's final speaking role until he was killed off eight years later in "201".
  • This and 201 are the only episodes where Pip talks with his "new" design.
  • This episode marks DogPoo's first speaking role.
  • The cliffhanger asks which South Park resident is to be killed off and never seen again as a background displaying Chef, Mr. Garrison, Jimbo, Officer Barbrady, Ms. Choksondik, and Mayor McDaniels is shown. Although Ms. Choksondik was the answer, Chef would become the second of the six to die four years later.
  • Also, the cliffhanger makes a resemblance to Cartman's Mom is a Dirty Slut, however, this time these questions are answered right after they have been raised.

References to Popular Culture

• The song that Towelie tries to play on guitar at the talent show, is Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven".
• The boys hold a contest reminiscent of The Bachelor in order to choose a new friend to take Kenny's place, even using roses.
• The music at parts of the friend choosing game might be a reference to the music of Friends.
• The scene where Butters Stotch is making his Professor Chaos costume is a reference to a scene from Batman Returns.
• The way Professor Chaos utilizes his pet hamsters is a reference to the 1971 horror film Willard and its antagonist's use of rat minions.
• A quote in the South Park Times Newspaper references the Movie "Forrest Gump" with its famous "life is like a box of chocolates" quote.
  • The newspaper also has a headline titled "North Park Ratings Sky Rocket" referencing themselves.

Continuity

• On the last page, Butters reads says "Flying Frogs Put This Years Crops In Danger", a reference to "It Hits the Fan".
• Loogie is referred to as "Luigi" in this episode.
• Distraught, Butters wanders home and laments at his bedroom window, recalling the many things he did for the boys, such as buying tampons for them and going on "Maury Povich" with balls on his chin for them.
• On the wall of the room, in the beginning, there is a "Cow Days" banner and a stuffed panda which resembles the Sexual Harassment Panda from "Sexual Harassment Panda".
• Damien is seen in the background as a candidate to be the boys' new best friend.
• As Professor Chaos walks down the street, a man can be seen who has a relatively large role in "The Passion of the Jew".
• This is the last episode to have the original Season Six intro, in which Butters holds a "Butters Show" sign in front of the title. Afterward, Tweek is next to the other boys, and Butters, dressed as Professor Chaos, knocks over the title.
• Dougie becomes Professor Chaos' sidekick in this episode, continuing their friendship from when they first met in "Two Guys Naked in a Hot Tub".

Goofs

• As the boys call Loogie to get a rose, Damien had not been selected but was holding a rose anyway.
• Similarly, when Tweek gets selected to collect his rose, both Damien and DogPoo were seen with a rose, despite both not making the cut.
• Despite being selected for the final six, Pip is absent during the swimsuit competition.
• When DogPoo was interviewed, his face seems to be clean from dirt.
• When Butters Stotch was looking at the South Park Times Newspaper, the Weather headline reads the temperatures "60-68" for Friday, "66-72" for Saturday, and "78-85" on Sunday. At these temperatures, snow would be almost completely melted, but throughout the episode, there was snow on trees and the ground.
• At the baseball game, Cartman tells Pip to leave. However, his picture still appears in the finals.
• When the boys mention that there are twenty contestants to get the position of the fourth friend, there are really twenty-one in the shot. In the end, Cartman says there are four, but five are shown.
• When they are handing out roses for the final six, it is shown when Jimmy Valmer is getting his rose that Craig Tucker is clearly holding a rose in his hand, despite not being selected.
• During the swimsuit competition, Stan's eyes got out of sync while talking to Eric Cartman and Kyle Broflovski.
• Butters has a camera in his garden linked up to the screen at the baseball pitch when he tries to flood the world. However, in the zoomed-out shot of his house, the camera is absent.

Hidden Visitor(s)

• There is a hidden visitor standing in the yeti log ride.

Dubbing Changes

International Titles

Language	Title	Translation
Japanese	怒りのバターズ (Ikari no batāzu)	Angry Butters

Common

• While recalling the events in "Freak Strike", Butters does not mention the Maury Povich show by name in the Brazilian Portuguese and French dubs.
• The minestrone ordered at Bennigan's is replaced with other food items in the following dubs:
  • Czech: Goulash
  • Hungarian: Tomato soup
  • Mandarin Chinese and Portuguese (Brazil): Vegetable soup
• The anonymous letter to Butters is read aloud by Butters himself in the Czech, French, German, Hungarian, Italian and Latin Spanish dubs.
• At the baseball game, Pip attempts to order other food items over a crumpet:
  • Czech: Pancake
  • French: Muffin
  • Hungarian: Cake
  • Italian: Cream wafers
  • Mandarin Chinese: Duck blood and pig's intestine
  • Ukrainian: Donut

French

• Butters quotes a cake-eating contest at an unknown location instead of a pie-eating contest.
• Upon hearing Pip ordering tea at the game, Cartman calls the former an "English bastard".
• The gift basket offered by Jimmy contains petit gâteau and candy in place of licorice and pencils respectively.

Italian

• In the amusement park montage, the voice-over line of "One thing for sure: picking our new friend isn't gonna be easy" is narrated by Cartman instead of Stan, to match with Cartman speaking during the particular scene.

Mandarin Chinese

• Fourth wall break: Instead of a pie-eating contest, Butters informs the boys that there are South Park toys available in McDonald's Happy Meals.
• Butters recalling the events of past episodes are removed, and replaced with good manners such as minding queues and returning found items.
• Clyde's question to Cartman is changed to: "阿尼接班也要常常掛嗎？" (Does the new friend have to die often too?).
• At Bennigan's, it is revealed that the second customer ordered chicken soup instead of the first, a reverse from the English version. In addition, both men highlighted their dietary requirements, with the first man being a vegetarian, and the second having low blood pressure.
• During the first montage, Stan comments that finding a replacement friend is harder than capturing Osama bin Laden.
• During the second montage, Cartman comments that they might as well dig up Kenny's body.
• The characters in the contest for Kenny's replacement are designated a number, which are utilized during the elimination segments. This is a common practice in beauty pageants and other talent shows that are held in Taiwan.
  • The numbers used in the contest can go up to 41, which is not possible given the smaller number of participants.
• Upon leaving the newspaper for Butters, Stephen intends to head out to practice qigong.
• There are no mentions from Linda on contracting AIDS after touching hamsters.
• At the baseball game, Pip attempts to order a cup of warm soy milk instead of tea.
• As the Jumbotron broadcast gets disrupted, Cartman thinks that the Falun Gong is trying to take over the transmission.
• During Professor Chaos' video broadcast at Coors Field, he points out that "even Bruce Willis cannot save the Earth now!"
• Jimmy's wealth status can be observed as the boys are discussing their finalists. Here, the gift basket from Jimmy contains pearls valued at $600,000. Later, Jimmy offers to buy for the boys watches and autumn wear at a boutique, as well as to treat them in a high tea.

Portuguese (Brazil)

• Butters quotes a hotdog-eating contest instead of a pie-eating contest.

Ukrainian

• DogPoo's line following his elimination is muted.