Four real life men usually known to sport a mustache are mentioned in relation to their public persona, inferring that characteristic related to the mustache itself:
- Groucho Marx - odd looking.
- Burt Reynolds - masculine.
- Abraham Lincoln - trustworthy.
- Charles Chaplin is mentioned in the small nature of his mustache in his Little Tramp persona.
The second of a four episode story arc concerning high end thief Reno West (Jed Allan), coined "take a little, leave a little" for his M.O. ("modus operandi" or "mode of operation") of only stealing a few small, high end items at a time so that the victims won't even know they've been robbed usually until weeks after the fact. However, Allen, as West, only appears in the first and last of the four.
The woman detained at the department store compares her husband to Simon Legree, a fictional character in the pre-American Civil War novel Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Legree is a greedy, cruel slave owner, his name synonymous with such characteristics.
The fire engine at the plane crash is Engine 51 from Emergency! Renumbered as Engine 29
459 = burglary.