Talk:Red Man's Greed

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Alastairward (talk) 17:22, 16 August 2008 (UTC)
 * The song the townspeople sing is “Love Is a Battlefield” by Pat Benatar with acapella “Ba-Bum -Bumm” emphasis as in the rock video percussion part for lack of a background soundtrack. This is the second appearance of the song in the series.
 * SARS was a disease which was very prominent in the news when the episode was originally broadcast, largely afflicting people from East Asia, hence the Chinese men rubbed on the blankets. Stan's father incorrectly states that there is only a 98% chance of survival; in reality, SARS had a 9.6% fatality rate (instead of the 2% as stated by Stan's father).
 * “Shock and awe” was a catch phrase used for the strategies employed during the operation to invade Iraq, which had begun when the episode was originally broadcast.
 * The using of blankets to give the townspeople SARS is a reference to an infamous incident in Pontiac's Rebellion (1763), when British officers led by General Lord De La Warr gave American Indians blankets exposed to smallpox in an attempt to infect them.
 * Mr. Garrison says “You had me at ‘free blanket’," a snowclone and a reference to Jerry Maguire.
 * Stan mentions a Wal-Mart within South Park that the citizens of the town shop at, later contradicted in the 8th season episode "Something Wall-Mart This Way Comes" wherein it's established that prior to said episode, there was no such place in South Park.