President Obama's speech "I am pleased to announce the greatest threat to mankind is gone forever" is lifted from his speech three days before this episode aired after the killing of Bin Laden.
The awards show put on by Jimmy is a reference to a short lived comedy awards show put on by Comedy Central in 2011 and 2012. "South Park" won for best animated series in 2011. Parker and Stone's sentiments about the show seem to be reflected in Kyle's line, " Dude, an awards show just for comedy sounds like a bad idea."
The Funnybot is a cross between a Dalek from Doctor Who and Nomad from Star Trek.
When the boys attempt to stop Funnybot at the television studio, a poster titled One And A Half Men can be seen in the hallway, mocking Charlie Sheen's departure from the show.
The German used in this episode is mostly non-sense, full of grammatical errors and can actually be barely understood by Germans.