Garan's forces are styled after the marauder types from Fist of the North Star and Mad Max 2.
The film was nomitated for 1983 Saturn Award by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy of Horror Films for Best International Film but lost to Mad Max 2 (1981).
The two take their money and eventually board a bus back to South Park, but Gibson chases after them in the tanker truck from Mad Max 2 while screaming "Qapla'!" and wearing face paint from Braveheart.
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Their suggestions allow Collins to parody several other music videos of the time, including videos by Michael Jackson, David Lee Roth ("California Girls"), Elton John, The Police ("Every Breath You Take"), and The Cars ("You Might Think"), as well as movies such as Mad Max 2 and various samurai movies and Westerns.
It features cultural references to the 1984 song "When Doves Cry", the 1981 film The Road Warrior and the 1968 song "What a Wonderful World", and the title of the episode is a play on the name Helen of Troy from Greek mythology.
Pursuit Special, a fictional model of car in the films Mad Max and Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior