Since this was made by the same studio that made VeggieTales, expect some shout outs to it. Also expect shout outs to Star Trek.
- Jason wears a white T-shirt, green sweater vest, beige shorts, and red and white sneakers, just like a certain preteen boy we know from another show.
- In Trouble on Planet Wait-Your-Turn, Michelle says that she and Jason stopped at Burger Bell on their way to the cottage. Burger Bell first appeared in "Love Songs with Mr Lunt, His Cheeseburger."
- Larry the Cucumber also lends his voice to a vacuum cleaner at Wait-Your-Turn. He's even credited in the end credits.
- In The Cheating Scales of Bullamanka, when Kevin says, "Whoa! Deja vu!" the guitar rift from The Twilight Zone (1959) theme briefly plays.
- When the Game of Squid-Tac-Toad is finished, Zidgel does the Woody Woodpecker laugh. To top it off, when he asks Michelle how she likes "the redhead look" on him, she answers that it's "too woodpecker."
- In The Amazing Carnival of Complaining, during the landing scene, the Rockhopper crashes into the side of the runway, much like Flik on the dandelion seed crashing into a rock in A Bug's Life.
- After the aforementioned landing sequence, Zidgel says, "Alright, crew, remember where we parked, Section P-3."
- Fidgel hiding in a cardboard box is a similar technique found in Metal Gear, where the player uses one to avoid being spotted.
- The music video after the episode, "The Shinin' Star Swing" contains the lyric "you can't always get what you want (no, no), you can't always get what you want (ah, ah), but if you gripe sometimes, you just mind find you turn into seed"
- In this episode's trivia game, one option for the question of what Jason was doing at the episode's beginning is "Reading 'Me and the Argonauts'."
- In Runaway Pride at Lightstation Kilowatt, the magnets holding up the pictures on the refrigerator look like a certain tomato and cucumber.
- Jason calls Michelle Mr. Magoo when she tells him his paint-by-numbers picture isn't looking the way it's supposed to.
- In this episode's trivia game, one option for the question of what is the Penguins' mission is "To boldly go where no flightless bird has gone before."
- In The Doom Funnel Rescue, an alarm goes off when the Rockhopper encounters a doom funnel. Where has that sound been heard before?
- B.I.N.G. managed to make the Rockhopper reach a speed of Warp 10, and he managed to do so without turning any of the crew members into newt-salamander hybrid things, go figure.
- When Professor Wordsworth boards the Rockhopper, the doors opening sounds very similar to the doors opening from Star Trek: The Original Series.
- In Moon Menace on Planet Tell-a-Lie, Zidgel is trying to find out where he heard a certain story from.
- In I Scream, You Scream, Zidgel says, "Make it so!", pointing included.
- Bert Bertman says, "This will be a day long remembered."
- Why is the planet being visited in Lazy Daze named Rigel 13? Could that mean there are other planets with that name?
- The Harryhausen Ray is named after Ray Harryhausen.
- Bert Bertman's mug has a picture of Larry-Boy on it.
- In More is More, Fidgel states that there seems to be some disturbance in the force of gravity.
- Zidgel says that they're off to see the Chancellor, the wonderful Chancellor of Gutt.
- The Chancellor of Planet Gutt has ordered pizza from Pizza Angel.
- In Practical Hoax, Cavitus plans to go to the Federation Academy to make his minions "the very models of modern major grovelers".
- There is a photo of Zidgel and a pink squid-like alien girl acting the play Romeo and Juliet.
- Comedy of Errors shares the same name with one of William Shakespheare's plays, even though there are no references to the play in the episode.
- In Wiki Tiki, the music from Lance the Turtle is played several times.
- Invasion of the Body Swappers is a parody title of Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
- In Git Along Little Doggies!, some music from The Ballad of Little Joe is used.
- In Wise Guys, Jason is reading The Time Machine at the beginning of the episode.
- The episode titled 12 Angry Hens references 12 Angry Men, a 1954 drama about a jury on a homicidal trial, hence the court setting.
- The Rockhopper crew encounters a scarecrow pointing somewhere and ask him for directions.
- In Kennel Club Blues, Jason and Michelle yell, "We're gonna need a bigger jar!"
- In Promises, Promises, the comic book that Michelle uses to plug up the hole in the dam depicts a certain tomato and cucumber on one panel.
- Cavitus says this quote in Do Unto Brothers.
- In Between an Asteroid and a Hard Place, Jason makes fun of Michelle by saying that the Penguins are calling them to a mission to search for her brain. It seems like he has some knowledge of Spock's Brain.
- When Zidgel greets the cow captain in In the Big House, he does the Vulcan salute.
