Doubar claims Sinbad first went to sea at age 12. This contradicts the earlier episode Conundrum (1996), in which Doubar claims he and Sinbad were involved in a shipwreck when Sinbad was a toddler.
The medical conditions Firouz mentions are both real, but he describes each as having the symptoms of the other: Elephantiasis causes abnormally large and swollen limbs, while acromegaly causes above average height.