This is the show's 100th episode. On Wednesday November 11th, a picture of the main cast and crew with a cake was found on their Facebook page.
The episode opens with the quote, "What's past is prologue." This is from William Shakespeare's The Tempest.
The 4-color Renard political poster is a direct takeoff of the 2008 Obama Hope poster made by Shepard Fairey.
The title is a play on "Into the Woods", a Sondheim Broadway musical (1986) and film (2014) about well known fairy tale characters. In the previous episode, Monroe says "Into the woods we go" before embarking on their hunt for the church.
Schwarzwald is the German term for the Black Forest.