The first episode features a character's death: Brenda the lunch-lady. The next time a character died was in the season 6 episode We'll Have a Good Time Then (1999). Other episodes to feature character deaths are And Then There Was Shawn (1998) and The Psychotic Episode (1999), but both of those turned out to be dreams.
Chet has the traditional pink flamingo, a very popular lawn ornament in trailer parks (popularized in the John Waters film Pink Flamingos) inside his trailer.