Max chews up a page of the rule book the same way he did with one of Eugene's wanted posters in the original movie.
Most of the villains from previous episodes appear on the prison barge, including Lady Caine, Weasel, Pockets, the Fake Giovanni, Axel the Horse and the Stabbington Brothers.
After the main title sequence, the episode begins with a special title card modeled after a forties era adventure film.
The shot of the Stabbingtons looking up while yelling "Rider!" is similar to a shot from the original 'Tangled' film.
The criminals on the barge say they plan to "pillage," "plunder" and "loot" when they get to land. This is probably a reference to the song "Yo-Ho (A Pirates Life For Me)" from Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean which includes the lyric "We pillage, we plunder, we rifle and loot..."