In this episode, Team Rocket uses a variation of their motto.
This is the first episode to use music from Pokémon 4Ever, at the very end of the episode.
An instrumental version of Face Forward Team Rocket! is used as background music.
This was the last episode to be banned in the English dub until SM064, 753 episodes later.
The Nurse Joy from The Joy of Pokémon is seen in a photograph in this episode, and is said to be the elder sister of the nurse in charge of the Pokémon Center in the Ice Cave.