Kirk Douglas' last role before suffering a stroke that impaired his speech. This was also his first and only voice acting role.
Lester and Eliza look like Bart and Lisa from when they were sketches on The Tracey Ullman Show (1987).
Roger Meyers, Sr. being cryogenically frozen is a reference to the myth that Walt Disney was frozen.
During their tenure as executive producers, Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein tried to include one episode related to The Itchy & Scratchy Show in every season. This was The Itchy & Scratchy Show-related episode for the seventh season, and became a vehicle for jokes about animation.
Roger Meyers wins a copyright claim against the U.S. Postal Service. The Postal Service has in fact been found to be in violation of copyrights before. They took a picture of the Korean War Memorial to be used on a stamp, but that sculpture was still under copyright protection.