Gabby, Stripes, Starla, Darington, Zeg and Watts don't appear in this episode.
Going by production order, this is the ninth episode of the fourth season.
Crusher never bothered to cheat nor despise Blaze in this episode. In fact, this is the eighth episode in a row that Crusher doesn’t do any cheating.
This is the fourth Robot Riders episode in a row that uses the same STEM concept, which is coding.
This is also the first episode to play a STEM song which was already heard in a past episode.
It is revealed Pickle always wanted to swim, and hasn’t done so until this episode.
It is also revealed that Pickle knows a lot about swimming, as he mentions some famous swimming positions (such as backstroke, butterfly swim, among others).
This is the second post-Season 2 episode without cliffhanger fade-outs after The Super-Size Prize. Though TV airings left the fade-outs intact.
In the United States, a person has to be 18 years or older in order to work in a restaurant, and since both Pickle and Crusher are working there as a waiter and chef respectively, they ought to be at least 18.
This is the first time Pickle doesn’t say “And Pickle!” when using Blazing Speed with Blaze alone.
This is the second Robot Riders episode that someone notices the blue grid backdrop appearing when the robot transformation sequence is beginning after Robot Power.
The disco truck is wearing the same disco clothes that Pickle wore in T-Rex Trouble.
This episode is set some time after The Super-Size Prize, because in that episode, Pickle got a job as a waiter, and was shown helping Crusher at his restaurant in this episode.
During the scenario where Blaze and Pickle are trying to stop the giant meatball from rolling into the stinky swamp, the two are smiling the first two times but the third time, they look nervous, as if they have to hurry up.
Crusher and other trucks getting trapped in giant meatballs.
Pickle commenting on his robot abilities.
Allusions[]
Before the opera truck gets trapped in the giant meatball, she sings the opening notes of Also sprach Zarathustra, made famous by the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. The same tune was heard in Darington to the Moon!.
When Crusher is shown making meatballs, he sings to the tune of "La donna è mobile", an Italian song from the opera Rigoletto made famous by Giuseppe Verdi.
When one of the trucks says, “Tires down…” it may be a pun on “Hands Down”, when a decision can be made easily.
When the meatball rolls this makes it as a Namco “Katamari Damacy“ reference and it's because on the game you roll a thing called as katamari and you need to control the prince
Goofs[]
When Blaze asks Pickle how he liked being a robot near the end, the disco truck is green instead of blue.
Electric eels in real-life don't fire electric blasts. The only way they can shock anyone is by using water as a conductor when they get close enough.
When the giant meatball rolls over Crusher, his chef hat falls down behind the meatball; when the meatball rolls away, the hat disappears.
When Blaze and AJ sample the meatballs, no bite marks are shown. They also place the bitten meatballs back on the plate, which is very unhygienic.
