2:05 - I'm sure you all care, but char (iwana) and sweetfish (ayu) are types of fish found in Japan. No shit. I have no idea why Drago wanted me to make a note for this obvious fact, but there it is. Picture of a char, picture of a sweetfish.

7:33 - Sekihan = rice cooked together with red beans. The rice turns a kind of pink, and ends up looking somewhat like Sakura after he was exploded. On an unrelated note, sekihan is usually eaten at celebrations like weddings and birthdays, and, I'm informed, it's also traditionally eaten by girls after their first period. Now for an unfortunately timed segue into the picture segment of this note: Picture of sekihan

7:38 - The Melon Boys and the sergeant going to the toilet lines were tough, but they are (kinda) explained in some commentary by the author of the Dokuro stories. Apparently, he and a bunch of friends were sitting around in a family restaurant one day, thinking up "one line novels" -- entire stories told in only one line. The two lines in the show were a couple of those "novels," so if you're looking for some deep meaning behind them (like we were), you're wasting your time (like we were), since they're pretty random. A couple other one liners were "How long do I have to stay naked?" and "When I opened my eyes, the T-Rex was still there." Bizarre stuff.

12:43 - The map with the "Bablov Republic" roughly lines up with Ibaraki Prefecture in Japan, which is more than likely where the class went for their trip. Ibaraki is an area full of lakes, waterfalls, and woodland, which would match the area they're visiting in the show. As for why he dreams that it's called the Bablov Republic, we don't have a clue. We assume the English is a misspelling of "Pavlov," which <i>is</i> what the katakana says, but unfortunately that still doesn't help us explain the reasoning behind the name. We'll just assume that, much like the rest of the show, there was no reasoning behind it. At any rate, learn more about Ibaraki here.

13:08 - Fukujindzuke (pickled Japanese vegetables) are normally used as a relish that you eat with curry in Japan.

16:46 - In Japan, people think dogs and monkeys don't get along. Thus, the epic monkey/dog battle.

16:47 - The kid turns into a Shiba Inu, which is mainly a Japanese breed of dog. Learn more about it here.

17:33 - All the "ghosts" Sakura talks about here are references to anime characters, proving Dokuro correct when she says he reads too much manga. The cat robot that comes from the future is Doraemon, the reindeer doctor is Chopper from One Piece, the nurse witch is Komugi from Nurse Witch Komugi-chan, and the moving castle is...well, the moving castle from Howl's Moving Castle. Not the most obscure references the show's thrown at us.

19:06 - The thing Dokuro is chanting here is some sort of children's game similar to Red Light Green Light.

26:01 - The twitching going on at the very end was seen earlier in the episode, as well. It's the Sensitive Salaryman's sensitive twitching noises.