At the beginning of the episode, Tamara Collins (Dylan Conrique) is driving and singing along with the radio. The song she's singing to is the actress's own song.
Alan Tudyk's character, Ellroy, asks if there have ever been any reports of aliens at the motel. Alan Tudyk plays an alien in the show Resident Alien and Nathan Fillion played the voice of octopus in a few episodes this season.
Alan Tudyk and Nathan Fillion starred together in Firefly and Serenity.
The bar Nolan and Gabrielle walk into to stop a fight was used as a diner in NCIS (2003) Judgment Day (Part I) (2008) where Jenny Shepard was killed.
Marks the return of character Nell Forester played by [Sara Rue].