The series debut of Robin/Dick Grayson.
The Gotham Knights football team is introduced - a reference to the Bat-family of crime fighters, who have also been referred to as the Gotham Knights.
The Scarecrow's line "The fear of Victory and the agony of the Scarecrow" is a pun on ABC Wide World of Sports' " The Thrill of Victory and the agony of Defeat"
When one of the robbers calls Robin "Boy Blunder" an allusion is made to Robin's title of Boy Wonder, the name with which Robin was introduced in Detective Comics #38 in 1940.
The Scarecrow gets a new look for this episode.