History YMMV / SouthParkS1E3Volcano

** Stan's [[AnimalLover more aggressive moments in favor of animal rights]] may be a manifestation of his remorse for killing Scuzzlebutt in this episode.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Chef suddenly singing "Hot Lava" at the end of the episode, though InUniverse it likely was a celebratory dance.

* FridgeHorror: Cartman's Vietnam flashbacks were implied to be made up. ''Implied'' being the key word. Considering how easily he and the other boys travelled to Afghanistan [[Recap/SouthParkS5E9OsamaBinLadenHasFartyPants in a later episode]] during UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror, his flashbacks being a case of CassandraTruth is not far out of the realm of possibility.

** The amicable relationship between Jimbo and Kenny becomes this when Jimbo kills him in ''[[Recap/SouthParkS1E10Damien Damien]]'' after [[ItMakesSenseInContext he mistakes him for a duck-billed platypus]] and attempts to kill him again in ''[[Recap/SouthParkS5E2CrippleFight Cripple Fight]]'' for an unknown reason. So much for being his "Honorary Nephew".

* FridgeHorror: Cartman's Vietnam flashbacks were implied to be made up. ''Implied'' being the key word. Considering how easily he and the other boys travelled to Afghanistan [[Recap/SouthParkS5E9OsamaBinLadenHasFartyPants in a later episode]] during UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror, it's not far out of the realm of possibility.

* HilariousInHindsight: Cartman is hesitant at the idea of going to Africa. [[Recap/SouthParkS1E8StarvinMarvin 5 episodes later]], he would be transferred to Ethiopia against his will.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Chef suddenly singing "Hot Lava".

** This episode is the earliest instance of Cartman's racism when he says that "[his] mom says there's a lot of black people in Africa" like it's a bad thing. While he likely didn't understand what he was saying in this episode, ''[[Recap/SouthParkS17E3WorldWarZimmerman seventeen years later]]'', he would go on to view black people as a plague.

* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: Jimbo says to Kenny that the former is making the latter his honorary nephew because Kenny is really cool. Kenny says “Thanks”.

* FridgeBrilliance: Cartman is shocked that Scuzzlebutt was real despite telling the story while Chef and Garrison knew what it was right away. Seeing as Cartman is around both of them a lot at school, one of them must've told Cartman about Scuzzlebutt and Cartman either forgetting or having a SelfServingMemory, thought he just made it up.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: In the commentaries, Creator/TreyParkerAndMattStone noted that of all the early episodes, this is the only one that's ''more'' edgy after UsefulNotes/{{Columbine}} and which they probably wouldn't be able to get away with now because it features children pointing guns and threatening to shoot each other (being from Colorado themselves, the massacre also affected them personally). Twenty years later, however, they would have whole ''families'' pointing guns at each other to satire then-current second amendment debates.

* {{Woolseyism}}: In the Italian dub, Patrick Duffy is replaced with "Ridge from ''Series/TheBoldAndTheBeautiful''". In the European Spanish dub, he is replaced with ''Music/RickyMartin''.

* {{Woolseyism}}: In the Italian dub, Patrick Duffy is replaced with "Ridge from ''Series/TheBoldAndTheBeautiful''".

** Jimbo being angry at Stan for killing Scuzzlebutt seems hypocritical, but it makes sense as one of the rules he told him was not to shoot anything that looked human.

* FridgeBrilliance: Cartman is shocked that Scuzzlebutt was real despite telling the story while Chef and Garrison knew what it was right away. Seeing as Cartman is around both of them a lot at school, one of them must've told Cartman about Scuzzlebutt and Cartman either forgetting or having a SelfServingMemory, thought he just made it up.l

* FridgeBrilliance: Cartman is shocked that Scuzzlebutt was real despite telling the story while Chef and Garrison knew what it was right away. Seeing as Cartman is around both of them a lot at school, one of them must've told Cartman about Scuzzlebutt and Cartman either forgetting or having a SelfServingMemory, thought he just made it up.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: In the commentaries, Creator/TreyParkerAndMattStone noted that of all the early episodes, this is the only one that's ''more'' edgy nowadays and which they probably wouldn't be able to get away with now because it features [[UsefulNotes/{{Columbine}} children pointing guns and threatening to shoot each other]] (being from Colorado themselves, the massacre also affected them personally). Twenty years later, however, they would have whole ''families'' pointing guns at each other to satire then-current second amendment debates.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: In the commentaries, Creator/TreyParkerAndMattStone noted that of all the early episodes, this is the only one that's ''more'' edgy nowadays and which they probably wouldn't be able to get away with now because it features [[UsefulNotes/{{Columbine}} children pointing guns and threatening to shoot each other.]]..Though, since Season 19 concluded with whole ''families'' point guns at each other, they presumably changed their minds about that.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: In the commentaries, Creator/TreyParkerAndMattStone noted that of all the early episodes, this is the only one that's ''more'' edgy nowadays and which they probably wouldn't be able to get away with now because it features [[UsefulNotes/{{Columbine}} children pointing guns and threatening to shoot each other.]]..Though, since Season 19 concluded with whole ''families'' point guns at each other, they presumably changed their minds about that.

MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Cartman's Vietnam War "flashbacks" could be just him messing with Ned... or [[FridgeHorror genuine flashbacks from a previous life]].