Sacred Cow/Trivia

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Trivia

• The title and plot of the episode is a reference to the idiom with the same name, which refers to something that can't be tampered with.
• A total of 4.81 million households watched this episode.
• The episode received positive reviews from critics.
• First episode to be written by one of the show's writing staff (Nora Smith).
• First appearances of Randy Watkins and the Animal Control Guy.
• Brendon Small, star of Loren Bouchard's former show Home Movies voices the Animal Control Guy. He later reprises the role in Season 5's "Dawn of the Peck."
• This is the only episode in Season 1 not to have the standard end credits sequence. Instead of walking in from off screen in the burger suit, Gene dances with his keyboard to a house composition he made for the 100,000th burger celebration featured just before the end credits.
• Shows the interior of the Store Next Door for the first time.
• This was the fourth episode produced but was aired third after "Human Flesh" and "Crawl Space" making it the first episode to be aired out of production order.
• Louise states that she wants to put a stick of dynamite in the beef and blow it up. Later, in "Ain't Miss Debatin'", the family makes a stop motion movie which ends with Meatman, a character made out of beef, being blown up by firecrackers that Louise uses.
• When the family is in the store next door trying to locate Moolisa, the sign on the door of the restaurant says "closed for family emergency."
• Randy's shirt is colored white in this episode, unlike later episodes where it is yellow.
• Animals at Mother Goose's Discount Petting Zoo include; Baa Baa Black Sheep (a white sheep painted black), Hickory Dickory Dock (two mice acting as a pendulum for a clock), and This Little Piggy Went to Market (a pig with its front legs tied to a shopping cart). Moolisa is dubbed The Cow That Jumped Over the Moon with a model of the moon suspended from below his stomach.
• The script cover shows Moolisa and several hands. One holding a soda cup, another with a spatula and one with a plate with a burger on top.
• The sign advertising the 100,000th burger says "Buy our 100,000th Burger and get it for 1/2 price. (*Conditions apply)."
• First appearance of the walk-in freezer in the basement of the property.
• In the background of Bob's fantasy after Moolisa dies, there are pink burger and heart-shaped clouds.
• The scene where Moolisa urinates on the floor with Gene having the idea of peeing on the floor is very similar to the scene from the Family Guy episode "Family Gay," where Peter's new horse urinates in the living room and he suggests to his family that they all should pee on the floor.

Goofs

• Randy starts the cow-ntdown in daylight, but later at 3 days and 2 hours, it's end of business at night. At 23 hours it's daylight again and when it reaches zero it's nighttime again.
• The male owner of Mother Goose's Discount Petting Zoo has a darker skin tone and wears a tank top advertising the petting zoo as opposed to the t-shirt he wears throughout the rest of the episode on the computer monitor in the video editing suite (Store Next Door) before the frame changes to a further out shot.

  

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• When Randy points out how there are only two days left on the cow-ntdown and the scene pans to the cow-ntdown, a red box is visible around the truck.
• In the last scene when Linda shows off the banner, Mort disappears from the booth, turning into a different man, and the male customer at the left turns into a woman.
• When Teddy says, "I'm signing an autograph, Bob" his arm hair disappears.