When Anansi and Osebo are fighting on the train, Virgil tells Anansi to "hit him with a web blast" and poses his hand in Spider-Man's traditional web shooter hand gesture. Static co-creator and the writer of this episode, Dwayne McDuffie was a huge fan of Spider-Man and decided to create Static after Spider-Man had changed so much in the comics like no longer being a teen hero and being married to a supermodel. Series story editor John Semper is also a huge Spider-Man fan and is best known as the story editor, head writer, and producer for Spider-Man: The Animated Series (1994). Semper also didn't care for the changes in modern Spider-Man comics and for the most part excluded 90's comic stories from his Spider-Man show.
Virgil refers to his sister Sharon as "Shoppa Zula," which is a reference to the Zulu king, Shaka Zulu.
Kumasi is the capital of the Ashanti region.
The episode center's highly on the Ashanti culture:
- Anansi, the spider, is a trickster in West African folklore.
- Osebo is only a minor character in one of the legends; a leopard tricked, caught, and killed by Anansi
- Dr. Anokoye is likely named after Okomfo Ankoye, co-founder of the Empire of Ashanti
The dam, though unnamed in the episode, is the Akosombo Dam.