When Fargo falls from the ceiling and misses the mat on the floor he says "Missed it by that much" A phrase frequently used by Maxwell Smart the main character on the 1960's spy spoof Get Smart.
Jo is in her car at an intersection when mailboxes and a stop sign start moving. This is an homage to a scene in 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'.
It is revealed on Sheriff Carter's airline ticket to Australia that Eureka is in the state of Oregon. Starting in Season 4 the town sign says "Welcome to Eureka" and includes the state name, "Oregon".
By the time this episode aired the computer game 'QWOP' had become well known. In the game you use only the keys Q, W, O, and P to control an athlete's movement. The game became famous for the incredibly awkward movements of the character at the hands of a novice controller.
At about time-mark 06:10, in a discussion of the super collider at GD, Tess remarks that, through use of the collider, ". . . (W)e could discover the nature of the Higgs boson . . . ."
Just a few years later (2012), at the Cern Large Hadron Collider, the discovery/verification of the Higgs Boson was announced.
Just a few years later (2012), at the Cern Large Hadron Collider, the discovery/verification of the Higgs Boson was announced.