Sam's laptop gets frozen on bustyasianbeauties.com, which links directly to the official Warner Bros. website. This also marks the first mention of "Busty Asian Beauties," which became a recurring joke in future episodes, as a supposed "interest" of Dean's.
The band Junk Food won a CW competition on MySpace to have their song "Next To You" included in the show. It plays while Sam and Dean are in the bar.
Purple Nurple is an actual drink, containing 1 oz. coconut rum, 1 oz. triple sec, ½ oz. Blue Curacao liquor, and 2 oz. cranberry juice.
The opening of clips from previous episodes featured scenes exclusively showing Dean and Sam goofing around and pranking each other, calling each other names.
Dean introduces Sam to Starla as his shuttle co-pilot, Major Tom. Major Tom is a character in several David Bowie songs such as Space Oddity and Ashes to Ashes.