This episode featured the first appearances of the Autobots Perceptor and Seaspray, and the Decepticon Dirge.
Cliffjumper calls the pirate captain "Long John". This is probably reference to the pirate leader Long John Silver, the primary antagonist of the novel Treasure Island.
Huffer called one mammoth "Shaggy". Casey Kasem, who dubbed some of the Autobots (including Cliffjumper and Bluestreak), also dubbed the character of Norville "Shaggy" Rogers in Scooby-Doo series.