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==Pop Culture References==
===Shout Outs===
Stan says, "My mother told me there are no real monsters, but there are." It's a line from the 1986 sci-fi film <i>Aliens</i>.

Officer Barbrady says to Barbara Streisand, "Well, you ain't Fiona Apple. And if you ain't Fiona Apple, I don't give a rat's ass!" Around the time this episode aired, singer-songwriter Fiona Apple had released her debut album.

Film critic Leonard Maltin and actor Sidney Poitier are portrayed as courageous defenders of the earth. The Cure's Robert Smith becomes the savior of the human race and gets a shameless album plug to boot. As he walks into the sunset, Kyle yells "<i>Disintegration</i> is the best album ever!"  This is a nod to The Cure's iconic 1989 album, a personal favorite of Trey and Matt.

Leonard Maltin says Streisand found the first half of the Diamond of Pantheos during the filming of 1984's <i>My Fair Lady</i>. Streisand wasn't in that film.

Cartman claims Kyle cried like Nancy Kerrigan, former American figure skater, when he was kicked. In 1994 during her televised practice performance, she was attacked by a man hired by skating rival Tonya Harding. The famous footage shows attendants helping Kerrigan as she grabbed at her knee wailing "Why, why, why?"

===Pwn'd===
Singer and actress Barbara Streisand, big time. After this episode, she criticized <i>South Park</i> for her characterization, saying the show was bad for kids because it promoted cynicism. She gets blasted again in the episode "[[Spookyfish]]" and used as an insult in <i>South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut</i> and "[[Osama bin Laden Has Farty Pants]]", before reappearing as Mecha-Streisand in "[[200]]" and "[[201]]".

Sally Struthers is shown doing a scene on set with Sidney Poitier.  Just like in "[[Starvin' Marvin (episode)|Starvin' Marvin]]", she is seen shoving large amounts of cake into her mouth.