- "Follow the money" is a phrase intended to lead to a motivating source. The phrase originated in the film All the President's Men.[1]
- The plot device is similar to films such as the 1974 made-for-TV movie The Gun and perhaps more closely with the 1993 film Twenty Bucks in which an everyday object is passed through multiple owners.
- When Joe sinks a penny in a shot glass and says "Boom Pistorius" and "Through the Bathroom Door" references Paralympic runner Oscar Pistorius who shot his girlfriend in the bathroom.
- Peter's temper tantrum parodies that of Kylo Ren from Star Wars: The Force Awakens, including the two stormtroopers who decide not to intervene.
- The drug den scene parodies a similar one in the film Boogie Nights.[2]
- Seamus says to some birds "So, the guy asks, 'What's the name of the act?' And they say, 'The Aristocrats.'" in reference to a dirty joke that Gilbert Gottfried made during the 2001 Friars Club roast of Hugh Hefner. [3]
- Everyone making an appearance takes a group photograph for Ellen at the end of the episode, referencing her group selfie at the 2014 Oscars.[4]
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