Editing Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride (section)

==Pop Culture References==

===Shout Outs===
Sparky is voiced by George Clooney.

Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride is a parody of the ride It's a Small World, the popular attraction in several Disneyland theme parks. Both are water rides that feature animatronic dolls of different ethnicities dancing and singing. An animatronic version of Brian Boitano can be seen gaily ice skating.

Big Gay Al's peculiar departure at the end of the episode is an homage to a scene from the movie <i>Seven Faces of Dr. Lao</i>.

Even though the assignment was on "Asian Cultures", Cartman gives a presentation on the 1980's detective show <i>Simon and Simon</i>, saying "And so you see, Simon and Simon weren't brothers in real life.  Only on television." He gets a D-.

Stan wishes his dog Sparky would be "a Rin Tin Tin". Rin Tin Tin was a German Shepherd who starred in multiple Hollywood films in the '20s and '30s and gained international fame.

===Pwn'd===
<i>Full House</i> star John Stamos' older brother, Richard. Though he probably doesn't count, because Matt and Trey made him up. 

English actor Hugh Grant. When Pip who isn't equipped with a helmet gets pummeled during the game, one of the announcers says, "I haven't seen an Englishman take a blow like that since Hugh Grant." This is in reference to his 1995 arrest for having public oral sex with Hollywood prostitute Divine Brown.