The "The Dark One" has been seen before. His first appearance was as "The Tunnelling Horror" in Bender's Game during which he is shrunk to his current size. Two characters remembered him. Leela must have realized he used to be the tunneling horror which is why she snuck him into the prison and attempted to use him to tunnel the feministas out. Zoidberg hated the tunneling horror in Bender's Game, which explains why he was so anxious to eat it throughout Into the Wild Green Yonder.
When the "cave man" falls from the tree after Leo sprays for Eagles, it is either Don Henley or Glenn Frey.
The sandworms on Mars are similar to the sandworms from the novel and film Dune.
The show that Bender and the robot mafia go to at the Wong hotel, a parody of the real-life Wynn hotel, is by Circuit Du Soleil. Circuit du Soleil is a parody of the real-life company Cirque du Soleil, which is known for having its shows at several hotels in Las Vegas.
The show is called Gearotica: A Celebration of Machine Sensuality. This could be based on the real-life Cirque show Zumanity, which was performed at the New York-New York Hotel and Casino, and had a far more erotic and sexual tone than other Cirque shows in Vegas.
The co-ordinates Zapp gives to find Leela, 36,24,36, are the same as Bart Simpson's locker code, as well as being the measurements for an hourglass figure.
Number 9 man can be seen in many episodes as a background character.
When searching for existence of life near the Violet Dwarf Star, Bender is using the same scope that Spock uses in regular episodes of Star Trek. He refers to it as a Spockoscope.
The XM Radio Repair Station is both a spoof on Sirius XM Radio and the repair station seen in the Star Trek: Enterprise episode Dead Stop.
The prison where the Feministas go to serve out their sentence contains a Panopticon. Its architect, Jeremy Bentham, declared it "a new mode of obtaining power of mind over mind".
The green energy shown in the movie could be the time traveling sphere from Bender's Big Score.
Mom is seen not wearing her "fat suit" in public. Either this was a mistake, or Mom had given up on pretending to be a kindly old woman.
Nearly every character living in the Futurama series appears in this film. There are no children in the final sequence.
This film aired in 4 parts from 3 July to 6 July 2010 on Sky1 in the UK.
Morbo calling Leela "The Notorious B-I-Itch" marks the closest that the series came to using the word "bitch"; unlike The Simpsons or Disenchantment, such word is never uttered in Futurama.
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According to David X. Cohen, the movie has a "real epic sci-fi story that involves this ancient battle that's been going on for billions of years and our crew, of course, ends up in the middle of that. It ends on a real sweet note and we'll be content with that if it's the last we ever do."
