Lyricist Glenn Slater tweeted that "Serenade" was a spoof of "Kiss the Girl" from The Little Mermaid (1989), a song which was also composed by his 'Galavant' collaborator Alan Menken.
The name Basikobitcz is a play on the insult "basic bitch".
After Roberta and Richard reveal that their undershirts are missing, Roberta was supposed to say, "And I think that I had hair on my legs," to which Richard retorts, "Me too! I'm completely shaven from the waist down!" In an interview, Timothy Omundson said that when he was given his lines, "I was like, 'How in the hell is this getting on TV?' And... it didn't!"