The number on August's door is 2. This is a sly nod to the film connected to August's identity, Pinocchio (1940), the second animated feature produced by Disney.
The lunch box that Regina brings Henry is a TRON lunch box. Once Upon a Time (2011) creators, Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis, wrote the screenplay for Tron: Legacy (2010).
When Pinocchio comes out of the tree in the real world, he is startled by a airplane flying overhead. The plane goes by very quickly but it very much resembles a plane from Oceanic Airlines from Lost (2004).
This is the first episode in which Red Riding Hood and Jiminy Cricket appear, but their counterparts, Ruby and Archie Hopper, do not.
As August indirectly states, the time zone in Phuket, Thailand, is twelve hours offset from Eastern Standard Time (Maine's timezone). In addition, the time zone in Phuket does not adjust for daylight savings.