Soos makes an Aladdin reference, stating, "it's a whole new world, shining, shimmering, splendid."
Alex Hirsch, the creator of Gravity Falls, revealed in a Reddit AMA after the first season of the show finished that his dream guest star on the show would be Jon Stewart, saying that he was his hero. Stewart appears in this episode, voicing Judge Kitty Kitty Meow Meow Face-Shwartstein.
Jon Stewart's second time voice acting in an animated Disney show. The year before, he the voiced the character Mr. Random in an episode of Phineas and Ferb.