This is the second episode to be created entirely with stop motion. The first was "It's a SpongeBob Christmas!" from 2012.
This is the second episode to air on Friday the 13th, the first being Bummer Vacation/Wigstruck (2006).
The German language version marks Axel Lutter's debut as the Flying Dutchman, replacing the late Hans Teuscher, who died on the 31st of October 2015.
In Plankton's "Horrors of the Krusty Krab", he tells how Krabby Patties are made by using the people (fish) of Bikini Bottom. Then he shouts "THEY'RE MADE OF PEOPLE". This is a direct reference to "Soylent Green" (1973) when Charleton Heston's character discovered how Soylent Green was actually made.