Astrid's statement, "Someone once told me, 'You can do anything as long as you can dream it,'" is a paraphrase of a quote by Walt Disney, "If you can dream it, you can do it."
Leroy's desire to sail could be a reference to actor Lee Arenberg's role as the pirate Pintel in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003).
When Mary Margaret and Leroy are selling candles door-to-door, a tall slender man opens the door eating a carrot, then his smiling plump wife appears. This couple is similar to Jack Sprat and his wife in a Mother Goose rhyme which goes "Jack Sprat could eat no fat, and his wife could eat no lean; and so betwixt the two of them, they licked their platters clean."
In different scenes, both Grumpy and Leroy whistle the song "Heigh-Ho" from Disney's 1937 film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
This is the first episode to be named after a character, the others being Lacey (2013), Ariel (2013), Lily (2015), Nimue (2015), The Black Fairy (2017), and Eloise Gardener (2017).