This episode was banned after an 18-year-old named Calvin Settle dropped a bowling ball from the top section of the New Jersey Route 139 superhighway, killing an 8 month old girl named Natalia Rivera. Morality in Media, a media watchdog group similar to the Parents Television Council, tried to connect the incident with this episode. However, the defendant claimed that he did not get the idea from the show nor even watch it. After enough time passed and due to the defendant saying he did not even watch the show the banning was lifted as of 1997. When the episode did re-air however, the scene of Beavis lighting the firecracker fuses was edited out.
This episode has been released exclusively on the "Too dumb for TV" PAL VHS tape.