Gabby, Starla and Darington don't appear in this episode.
Going by production order, this is the nineteenth episode of the first season.
Despite this episode aired in 2015, it was produced in 2014 according to the end credits.
The electric guitar Blaze used in Truck Rangers can be seen in the third junk pile he hops over.
This is the first episode where Caleel Harris voices AJ. Harris will later take over for Seasons 2-3.
Despite this, Dusan Brown voices AJ in the next two episodes due to them being produced before this.
Part of the Let's Learn S.T.E.M.: Volume 2 DVD.
This is the last episode until Five Alarm Blaze where Blaze uses Blazing Speed at the start of his adventure.
This is the first episode to involve a carnival.
Blaze encounters a grizzly bear and it follows him everywhere, the same happened with Darington in Blaze of Glory.
Blaze and AJ's attempts to stop the grizzly bear from chasing them were:
A piece of wood (failed)
A metal roadwork sign (failed)
A mattress (succeeded)
Crusher encounters a skunk again since Truck Rangers.
One of the things the rocket goes through is a tree of truckberries; truckberries previously appeared in Gasquatch! as something Gasquatch is allergic to.
At the beginning when Blaze and AJ are greeting the viewers, a Truck Ranger can be seen in the background behind them.
This is the second time Stripes and Zeg are sad. Stripes was sad in Blaze of Glory, and Zeg was sad in Tool Duel.
Stripes and Zeg both said Pickle’s name for the first time.
First time Crusher's cheating is not used against Blaze nor during Blaze's adventure.
Crusher is implied to have a dislike for ballet in this episode.
This is the only episode to date where Joe appears without Gus.
There is an underpants store in Axle City, which makes no sense since this universe is majorly populated by trucks, who usually don’t wear underwear.
This is the first episode to use the Caleel Harris version of Hit the Road.
Running Gags[]
The rocket flying through something that Pickle mentions, which gets stuck on Crusher.
The rocket knocking things over or bumping into things.
Allusions[]
The title is inspired by the Jimmy Neutron pilot episode, Runaway Rocketboy!.
When the rocket crashes through the ballet store sign, a snippet of "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy" is played, a famous tune written by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and used in his famous ballet The Nutcracker.
The Whammer Hammer is similar to Rocket's hammer whammer from "Little Einsteins". Though the latter has its name the opposite.
Goofs[]
Shortly before the STEM song starts, the captions claim Pickle is whining, when it's actually Crusher doing it.
The sign for the pet store depicts a dog, cat and rabbit as they appear in real time, when in this universe, all animals are truck-stylized.
Although it is possible that their tires are hidden.
The bone on the pet store sign increases in size when it gets caught in Crusher’s mouth.
The tutu on the ballet store sign is not holographic, but becomes such when it gets stuck on Crusher.
When Crusher encounters the skunks, they are on the other side of the trees; therefore Pickle shouldn’t have been able to see them when he pointed them out.
The rocket is getting really close to the garbage dump when Blaze sees it, but after Blaze turns into a pogo stick to save Crusher and Pickle, the rocket is farther away from the dump.