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Kyle is on a pace to win the annual South Park spelling bee, but ends up being beaten by a pair of home-schooled children, Mark and Rebecca. After the competition, Mark decides he wants to go to a regular school like the other kids, while Kyle finds himself smitten with Rebecca. Cartman, meanwhile, decides he wants to try homeschooling, which to him means lying in bed all day watching television.

This is the last episode in which Mary Kay Bergman played a new character (Rebecca Cotswolds). It was also the last episode to air while she was alive.

The flag seen on Rebecca's door (when she and Kyle are playing doctor) is that of the Central-European country Slovenia.

In class, a drawing of a Visitor can be seen behind the students on the wall.

Kyle's conversation with Rebecca in her father's garden is a parody of the conversation between Kirk and Shahna in the Star Trek episode Star Trek: The Gamesters of Triskelion (1968).

Butters actually gets his first kiss in this episode. He gets kissed by Rebecca at the school dance. Yet in the Season 13 episode Mestecko South Park: Butters' Bottom Bitch (2009), he claims he's never kissed a girl

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    • Author: Grillador
    Hooked On Monkey Phonics is a hilarious South Park episode! It's another example of kids being kids.This show actually has one of the most realistic portrayals of kids I have ever seen.The boys meet two home-schooled kids at a spelling bee, they are extremely smart and seem to know the answers to all the hard spelling questions.Kyle is smitten by the girl, Rebecca.The home-schooled boy now wants to socialize with the other kids and asks his father to put him in public school.His father reluctantly agrees.The boy however, gets ridiculed and beaten up because he has not socialized before and acts fairly weird.Meanwhile, Kyle kisses Rebecca.This however turns her into a total slut(fairly true to life I might add).Meanwhile, Cartman decides to be home schooled.This is a very funny south park episode!
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    • Author: Angana
    The Phonics Monkey was adorable and funny. My only problem with this episode is that it used the overused trope of "Home Schooling = No socializing", and tons of people believe this in real life. As an actual person who was Home Schooled, I just want to say that this is not true. All of my Home Schooled friends, and myself, socialized as much, if not more than Public Schoolers. There's a Home School community. We're not the weirdos that you see on TV. :-)
  • Episode cast overview:
    Trey Parker Trey Parker - Stan Marsh / Eric Cartman / Mark Cotswolds / Mr. Cotswolds / Mr. Garrison / Randy Marsh / Ronnie James Dio / Token (voice)
    Matt Stone Matt Stone - Kyle Broflovski / Kenny McCormick / Jimbo Kern / Gerald Broflovski / Pip Pirrup / Craig / Leopold 'Butters' Stotch (voice)
    Mary Kay Bergman Mary Kay Bergman - Liane Cartman / Hooked on Monkey Fonics Tape / Mayor McDaniels / Mrs. Cotswolds / Rebecca Cotswolds / Principal Victoria (voice)
    Isaac Hayes Isaac Hayes - Chef (credit only)
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