Come on, Galatea, show me that sparkly something you've been hiding away just for me…
A pair of dust herders from the rings of Neptune stumbles on a billion-to-one opportunity: a dark comet loaded with rare and valuable materials; a ghost BRONCO. However, they soon discover they aren't the only ones after this score, and that the stalemate between the ships chasing this ghost may just damn them all.
- Cash is voiced by Carlo Deniega
- Robbins is voiced by J.D. Jackson
- Captain Ivanhoe Iveskin is voiced by Quill Turner
- Monroe Jones is voiced by Meg Connell
- This is the second episode in Season 3 inspired by the song "(Ghost) Riders in the Sky", originally written by Stan Jones in 1948. The other episode inspired by that song is Beat the Drum Slowly.
- The character names in this episode are all taken from musicians who’ve done their own takes on Riders in the Sky: Cash and Robbins from Johnny Cash and Marty Robbins, Iveskin from Burl Ives, Jones from Vaughn Monroe and Stan Jones, and yes, even Miss Peggy Lee. The Windy Day also takes its name from the first line in the song.
- The Truth or Consequences was named after the city in New Mexico.
- The Jiménez-Mustang mining concern is named after Blue Mustang by Luis Jiménez, the statue at Denver International Airport otherwise known as “Blucifer”.
- The packaged meals mentioned in the episode (curry rice and veggie omelet, aka vomlet) are inspired largely by the MREs used by the US military.
- "Whacker" was previously mentioned in Season 1, a combination of alcohol from "brewed runoff sucrose stuff" and caffeine. The "special engine degreaser" is just high-proof ethanol distilled for potency and not for flavor.
- This episode is one of four non-Finale episodes in Season 3 which features a plot arc involving secretly related characters, colloquially known backstage as the “Disaster Family”.