This episode features Garret Dillahunt's real-life wife, Michelle Hurd.
This episode makes several references to Alfred Hitchcock movies.
When Burt makes the call and talks in a funny voice and Virginia says he sounds like George Bailey from the movie It's A Wonderful Life (she describes the movie). Jimmy Stewart plays George Bailey and also plays the lead in the movie Rear Window which this episode is referencing.
The man who moves into the odd house at the end of the episode is Norman Bates, and his mother. From Alfred Hitchcock's movie Psycho.
The black and white dress Virginia wears in the episode is similar to the one Grace Kelly wears in Hitchcock's Rear Window. (Also Virginia's clothes in this episode closely parallel outfits of Hitchcock leading ladies).