At the time this episode was broadcast, Mother Was a Rooster (1962) had not yet been released on DVD or Blu-ray, but had been available to watch on the Boomerang app and the HBO Max streaming service.
Bill's childhood pet bulldog was named Commander Stinkbomb.
Toony's parents are revealed to be longtime rock musicians, performing in the 1960s-1970s as "Pike & Tina Tuna" (a spoof of duo Ike Turner and Tina Turner), reinventing themselves in the 1980s as the goth band "Unholy Mackerels", and finally re-branding themselves as "The Whitefish Stripes" (a spoof of The White Stripes).
Bill's Mom (Leila Gorstein) and Bill's Dad (Kevin Fleming) are the only characters who join Bill and Toony in this episode, marking the first time neither Goldie Fisher nor Mr. Quizzer makes an appearance.
As a clumsy and accident-prone child, Bill earned the somewhat embarrassing family nickname of "Bonky".