Donatello happily declares "I love being a turtle!" This was a line heard in the 1990s TMNT film Trilogy: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze (1991) and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III (1993), TMNT (2007) and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003) (as a theme song lyric).
This episode features the first appearance of Chrome Dome in this series. Chrome Dome was a ninja robot built by the Foot Clan and was a toy from the original toy line and appeared in the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987) cartoon in the episodes Planet of the Turtleoids: Part 1 (1991), Planet of the Turtleoids: Part 2 (1991) and Night of the Rogues (1993).