Brad says DuckTales played a big role in his childhood. Danny Pudi (Brad) voices Huey in the current reboot of the DuckTales animated series.
The "blood ocean" disease that is introduced into the game has real-world similarities to the "Corrupted Blood incident" from World of Warcraft.
This episode dovetails with real life events in ways that the creators couldn't possibly have imagined. Blood Ocean is a disease released into the Mythic Quest gameworld - just as the Covid-19 pandemic closed down production on all films and TV shows shortly after the episode aired. This was supposed to be the season finale, but the pandemic afforded the show the opportunity to film an additional remote episode.
Ian claims that him and Poppy are similar to The Beatles. He then says that she's Ringo Starr, which offends her. There is a remarkably similar conversation between Rob McElhenny, Charlie Day and Glenn Howerton on the It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia podcast. Rob says that he's Paul and that Charlie is a mix of Paul and Lennon. Glenn responds with "if you say I'm Ringo I swear to god..." As many people know, 3 of the 4 hosts of the podcast, including Megan Ganz created Mythic Quest. Howerton is the only one not involved with the show.