The title is based on the song from the Disney classic Three Little Pigs (1933), 'Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?' as well as Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
Madame Ouspenskaya is named after Maria Ouspenskaya, who played the Romani woman Maleva in The Wolf Man (1941) and Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943).
This episode takes place from October 30 to October 31, 1994.
Like Little Boy Boo (1992), this is a parody of The Wolf Man (1941). Both Dinosaurs (1991) and Boy Meets World (1993) were co-created by Michael Jacobs.