Crustacia's frenemies call over a portrait painter, who abandons three women posing for him. The women are in a classic "Charlie's Angels Pose", adapted from promotional shots for the 1976 tv show that helped legitimize women as action heroes. To a degree, Charlie's Angels cleared the path for Xena.
This was not Alex Tyding's first wedding cake fight. She and Lucy Lawless appeared together in the Hercules the Legendary Journeys episode Stranger in a strange world in which they get into a fight.
The central plot of this episode is based on the movie Overboard (1987) starring Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell.