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  • Aluminum Christmas Trees: The punchline to the "sodomized...in the ass!" bit is obviously the redundancy of it, but many anti-sodomy laws do consider a wide range of sex acts to also count as sodomy.
  • Harsher in Hindsight: The ending has a Ridiculously Successful Future Self version of Cartman travel back in time to meet himself in the present in an attempt to ensure that he stays on the path to a good future, only for Cartman to end up becoming a Future Loser instead (quothe Cartman: "OH, GODDAMNMIT!"). Let's just say that after The Return of Covid, Cartman's new future self at the end of this episode seems successful by comparison, and like this episode, he caused it due to time travel.
  • Hilarious in Hindsight: Randy’s opposition to drugs is pretty funny considering his future career as a pot farmer. In a darker way, the remarks about pot causing terrorism also came true considering Randy later commits multiple acts of domestic terrorism in the name of his pot business.
  • Unintentional Period Piece: The episode was made in 2002, when societal attitudes towards marijuana use were firmly in Drugs Are Bad mode. The jarring contrast between Randy's behavior in this episode and the later Tegridy Farms arc noted in Hilarious in Hindsight above demonstrates how much attitudes towards marijuana have shifted since it was made.

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