The inspiration for the second half of this episode came from writer Jon Cooksey's 4-year-old daughter, Mariel Cooksey, who thought pirates were coming to their house to fix their broken pilot light.
Grandpa Lou jokingly asks Angelica if she has been telling lies like Pinocchio. David Doyle, who voices Grandpa Lou, also voiced Pepe the Cricket in The Adventures of Pinocchio just one year earlier.
This episode was called Angelica's Clues.