(at around 2 mins) The witch's house in the beginning was modeled after the "Bates Motel" house in the film Psycho (1960).
Big City contains elements of New York, Las Vegas, and San Francisco.
Cheech Marin, the voice of Mad Hog (the straw house pig), voiced Hansel and Gretel's father, who is briefly mentioned at one point, when Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child (1995) told their story. When the show the Three Little Pigs, the first little pig, the one Cheech is voicing, was voiced by Courteney Cox.