Otis states the meaning of "yoni" as "vagina", which is a Hindi and Sanskrit word for female genitalia.
Eric tells Otis, "You jizzed your pants, you're not Hannibal Lecter." Gillian Anderson was on the TV show "Hannibal," where she played Lecter's therapist.
Whilst watching mastermind, Maeve correctly answers 'Mervyn Peake' for one of the questions, the author Mervyn Peake's wife was called Maeve.
The blue car in the school car-park near the start of the episode is an Austin Allegro Vanden Plas, originally manufactured from 1974.
Tanya Reynolds (Lily) and Connor Swindells (Adam) both had parts in the 2020 production of Austen's novel Emma, Connor as Robert Martin and Tanya as Mrs. Elton.