Trivia[]
- Table read date: Unknown.
- The title is a reference to the 1970 Simon and Garfunkel album Bridge Over Troubled Water, also the name of a song on said album.
- This episode is the first to be titled after Regular Sized Rudy.
- This episode was scheduled to air May 9, 2021 before being brought forward to May 2 to replace "Vampire Disco Death Dance".
- In terms of viewership this is the lowest rated episode in Season 11 (0.953 million viewers) and the first in the entire series to get under a million viewers.
- This is the last episode where Jimmy Pesto is voiced by Jay Johnston. Johnston was fired soon after being pictured at the January 6 United States Capitol attack in March 2021.[1] With the Season 14 episode "Bully-ieve It or Not", Jimmy is back, albeit voiced by Eric Bauza. Similarly, this is the last episode to feature Trev until "Bully-ieve It or Not".
- The daydream that Bob has while meditating and again during the end credits is a reference to the scene in The NeverEnding Story in which the deuteragonist Atreyu rides the dragon Falkor, with Mort's design during these sequences modeled after Falkor.
Goofs[]
- When Tina's remarking on how slowly they're all moving on the way to Rudy's mother's house, the bridge on the back of their bikes disappears in one shot.