In his classroom presentation, Cartman points to people with red hair, light skin and freckles as an inferior race. He thinks differently when, one morning, he himself wakes up with an advanced case of Gingervitus! Sick and tired of being ripped-on because he now has red hair, light skin and freckles, he rallies all ginger kids everywhere to fight against discrimination. Originally Aired 9th November 2005 How Kenny Dies - Guest Starring - Mini Commentary Download Get Flash to see this player. Trivia The fictional disease "gingervitus" takes its name from gingivitis, an oral disease, which is an inflammation of the gums, characterized by redness and swelling. The episode references the 1998 film Blade, in which the title character is a half vampire who can walk in sun, and so is termed The Daywalker The scene with Stan and Kyle are in the barn is an homage to the George Romero film Night of the Living Dead, in which seven people barricade themselves in a house against a wave of attacking zombies. The "breaking-in" scene has since become a staple of zombie films. Cartman says people with red hair and freckles are the dominant species, a statement that bears a passing resemblance with Adolf Hitler's and Nazi ideas about the genetically superior Aryan, or master race. It could also be seen that Cartman's bigotry comes to rebound on him in the form of a physical appearance that is similarly stigmatised. "I know a guy who's marrying a Japanese woman very soon..." refers to Trey Parker's marriage to Emma Sugiyama in late January 2006. "We'll pick up with Clyde's speech about lesbian cheerleaders..." refers to a November 2005 story about two cheerleaders found having sex in a women's toilet. The entire ginger convention in the Sunset Room at the Airport Hilton was a reference to the Roald Dahl book The Witches. In the book, the witches were working on exterminating children "secretly" in a hotel convention room, the same is the case with Cartman and the gingers exterminating all non-gingers. When the ginger kids set out to find all the kids in town, one of the them sings the theme from The Amityville Horror. This episode marks the first time we see the new school bus driver (Miss Crabtree was killed back in Cartman's Incredible Gift). He appears to be a dark skinned man, perhaps of Mediterranean or Middle Eastern descent, and has no speaking part. Cartman's chant of "Better red than dead!" is a take-off of the anti-Communist slogan "Better dead than Red!", although many countered McCarthyism in the 1950s with Cartman's exact rephrasing. The Ginger Kids protesting the production of Annie reflects the controversy that surrounded the casting of a non-Asian actor in the leading role of an Asian character in the Original Broadway production of the musical Miss Saigon. The ginger kids appearing at a window is a reference to the TV adaptation of the Stephen King book Salem's Lot.

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