When Courtney tells her bunk mates a story about her sabotaging a duchess' portrait, it is a refrence to the movie "Barbie in The Princess and the Rockstar". In that movie the main character replaces her aunt's protrait with that of a donkey.
Sloane and her friends resemble Skye Sweetnam, Dua Lipa, and Halle Bailey. Bailey is set to play Ariel in the Little Mermaid.
In an attempt to heal the nation, on February 14, 2021, podcast hosts Richard Martin and Alexander "AJ" Jones of the Cult Popture Podcast released an 18+ hour comprehensive podcast reviewing the 37 Barbie films. The retrospective took over a month to prepare and features numerous guest speakers as well as an original song created specially for the podcast.