Jimmy Olsen mentions that while wandering through the Metropolis subway tunnels on his way to a rave, he thinks he's just about meet the "mole people." The first theatrical Superman release was "Superman and the Mole-Men (1951)," in where Superman encountered a race of beings who lived underground.
Vapid goth girl Aurora says, "The children of the night. What beautiful music they make, you know?" That is a semi-literate rendering of a line from Bela Lugosi's 'Dracula' 1931; Dracula was commenting on wolves howling.
At the end of the episode, Grant Gendell refers to a song about the fly in some girl's chardonnay, saying that's not ironic, however a recluse who finally decides to come out of hiding on the very day he's almost killed is. This is a reference to the song "Ironic" by Alanis Morissette which has just released about eight months before this episode aired, and was her highest-charting single on the Billboard Hot 100.
Clark mentions getting tickets for the Metropolis Tigers game vs the Bills. Dean Cain had a contract with Buffalo Bills until an injury forced him to give up his football career.
This is the list of Lois's favorite foods that Carol had. Homemade chocolate eclairs, baked meatloaf, jellied madrilene, double loin lamb chops vert pre, spring chicken, fresh fruit supreme, smoked salmon, crab meat cocktail, creamed holland herring, blue point oysters on ice, little neck clams on ice, cold mulligatawny with apple, soup or consommé du jour, chicken cacciatore. Carol served Lois chocolate eclairs on their first visit and Bob made chicken cacciatore when they had Lois and Clark over for dinner.