First episode to use computer technology to animate the show.
This is the first episode where Mr. Hat appears to be a separate entity from Mr. Garrison.
Shortly after the episode aired, the tabloid The Globe hired Suzen Johnson to film herself seducing Frank Gifford, Kathie Lee Gifford's husband, for a newspaper story. The incident was the first of what Trey Parker and Matt Stone called the "South Park Curse", in which something tragic or embarrassing supposedly happens to a celebrity shortly before or after they were featured in the series.
The crowd shots took a particularly long time to animate due to the large amount of people featured, and the animators were especially proud of the use of depth and motion in the perspective of the crosshairs in Mr. Garrison's rifle scope as he tried to assassinate Kathie Lee Gifford.
First appearances of Jimbo Kern, Mayor McDaniels, Bebe Stevens and Clyde Donovan.