Starting with this episode "Shit" is now uncensored on future airings on Comedy Central and on the website.
The quest for Kenny to reactivate the hospital's generator, the map of the hospital and the possible danger of velociraptors are all a parody of Jurassic Park (1993).
Mrs. Cartman manages to hook up with Bill Clinton. At the time this episode aired, Clinton was President of the United States. Also at this time he was involved in allegedly having an affair with intern Monica Lewinsky, allegations that almost led to his removal from the office as President.
This episode was originally to air on April 1, 1998, four weeks after Cartman's Mom Is a Dirty Slut (1998) was first broadcast, but instead of continuing the storyline from that episode, Trey Parker and Matt Stone made Terrance and Phillip in Not Without My Anus (1998), as an April Fool's Day prank on viewers of the show. Upset fans wrote more than 2,000 angry e-mail complaints to Comedy Central within a week of the episode's original broadcast, and media outlets said some fans harboured a grudge against the show more than five years after the episode was broadcast.
When Eric Roberts begins making up his own lines, he is in reality reciting a line from the 1559 play The Pleasant Comedie of Old Fortunatus written by Thomas Dekker.