Several crew, including episode director Kim Manners, make a cameo in the form of the yearbook page that Scully flips open.
The Filter song "Hey Man, Nice Shot,"used throughout this episode, was written about the television broadcast of Pennsylvania politician R. Budd Dwyer's suicide. Dwyer, a much beloved community leader during the 1980s, was caught in a bribery scandal. His shame and embarrassment drove him to publicly shoot himself during a press conference. Later that day, a number of television stations throughout Pennsylvania broadcast taped footage of Dwyer's suicide to a midday audience.
As a meta in-joke, during this episode's end credits, Chris Carter's usual on-screen end credit eerily appears on Darin's TV. It appears as if Darin had just caught the end of an X-Files episode while channel surfing.
Mulder stumbles upon a picture of Sharon Kiveat whilst flipping through Darin's porno magazine. The actress who plays Sharon, Karen Lorre née Witter, was Playboy Playmate of the Month for March 1982.