Dawson Casting: Mostly averted, as the core teenage cast were indeed teenagers during filming. However, this applied with Walter Emmanuel Jones as Boomer; although Boomer was in his teens, Jones was in his twenties.
Referenced by...: In the Oxventure episode "High Noon", Dob and Corazon respond to an aggressive gang of werewolves styling themselves like a biker gang by calling themselves "Team X-Bladz". note This was before their actors, Luke and Andy, launched a Disney Channel Original Movie podcast, meaning fans were both amused and utterly confused as to what the hell was being referenced.
Brink is entirely responsible for the creation of the podcast Mom Can't Cook!: A DCOM Podcast, by Andy Farrant and Luke Westaway of Outside Xbox and Outside Xtra. During the COVID-19 pandemic and first national lockdown in Britain, the two ended up browsing Disney+ for things to watch and stave off boredom. After watching Avatar with mixed feelings, they trawled through a back catalogue of films (reasoning they might as well with nothing else to do) and watched this film out of curiosity. What happened afterwards was a subsequent binge-watching of Disney Channel Original Movies, and a podcast they launched in 2022.