First episode not to feature Jerry or Beth.
At the beginning, Rick and Morty and Summer are standing in front of a building called "Egan Cinema." Greg Egan is a hard science fiction author who frequently writes about quantum ontology and simulated realities.
The architectural look of Zeep's miniverse was based on architect Frank Lloyd Wright's "Fallingwater" design.
The title of this episode is a play on the 1980 South African film The Gods Must Be Crazy (1980), in which a Bushman from the Kalahari Desert, having never been in contact with western people and being totally oblivious of technology, finds a bottle and thinks that it is a gift from the Gods.