The title references 'Deep Throat', the pseudonym given to the secret informant who provided information in 1972 to 'The Washington Post' reporters' Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, providing key details about the involvement of U.S. president Richard Nixon's administration in what came to be known as the 'Watergate scandal'. Woodward and Bernstein later wrote 'All the President's Men (1976)'.
While in hospital, Fran reads the magazine "Cosmopolitan". It is actually the February 1994 issue with Stephanie Seymour on the cover.