This special was made to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the SpongeBob SquarePants series.
Eveb though additional scenes were included in the DVD release, many of the Patchy segments were still removed in later airings of the episode.
The music video for the song "We've Got Scurvy" has been introduced during the SpongeBob SpongeBash marathon presentation of The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (2004).
When Patchy the pirate calls random people he called Robin Williams. Both Williams and Clancy Brown the voice of Mr. Krabs previously worked on the Disney film Flubber (1997) playing Smith and Professor Philip Brainard respectively.