Gilbert (Alex Price)'s comment, "It's death for no reason, and death for no reason is murder," comes from the song 'Meat is Murder' by The Smiths, a British band popular in the '80s. Later, a clip from another song by The Smiths, 'Girlfriend in a Coma,' can be heard. Gilbert also shouts "Hang the DJ" which is a phrase of a 'Smiths' song too. The song is called "Panic".
The title is a reference to the 1980s song of the same name by English Ska band The Specials. The song also features in the soundtrack.
Music:
- Tainted Love, by Soft Cell, from the album Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret (1981)
- Girlfriend in a Coma, by The Smiths, from the album Strangeways, Here We Come (1987)
- Ghost Town, by The Specials (1981)
- In My Room, by Marc and the Mambas, from the album Torment and Toreros (1983)
- Tunnel of Love, by Fun Boy Three (1983)
- High Tension Line, by The Fall
- A Promise, by Echo & The Bunnymen
- Little Garcon, by Born Ruffians
- Love Will Tear Us Apart, by Joy Division (1980)
- Torch, by Soft Cell
- Reward, by The Teardrop Explodes
Gilbert (Alex Price) also says "There is a light that never goes out" which is also from a The Smiths song, of the same name, from the album 'The Queen is Dead'.
Towards the beginning of the episode, Nina (Sinéad Keenan) tells George (Russell Tovey) that a projector caught fire during an Art History class at the language school. It's possible that this is the same language school where George works in season 2.