This episode features the debut of the voice actors for the Pokémon USA (later the Pokemon Company International) version of the English dub. As such, this is the first episode in which Sarah Natochenny provides the voice of Ash; Michele Knotz voices May, Jessie, and James's Chimecho and Cacnea; Kayzie Rogers voices Max; Bill Rogers voices Brock and Jessie's Seviper; and James Carter Cathcart voices James and Meowth.
James says "Those Psychic Pokémon just wanna rock and roll all night and party every day!" as a reference to the KISS song "Rock and Roll All Nite", the chorus of which is "I wanna rock and roll all night, and party every day!"
This is the last episode in which Chimecho recites its name in the end of Team Rocket's motto.
This was the first episode to air on Cartoon Network, which was in a prime-time slot following the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Team Go-Getters Out of the Gate! (2006) special.