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'''Curtis:''' ''(downs a shot)'' They...well, they made me...slow dance.}}
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'''Dean:''' These punishments, they’re almost poetic. Well, actually they’d be more like a limerick, but still...<}}
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'''Sam:''' Your dirty socks in the sink! Your food in the fridge!<br>
'''Dean:''' See what I mean?<br>}}
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'''Sam:''''' (Dean tellng the story) '' Look, man, I...I know this all has to be so hard. But I want you to know... I'm here for you. You brave little soldier. I acknowledge your pain. Come here. [grabs him in a hug] You're too precious for this world.<br>}}
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'''Dean:''' This is my shuttle co-pilot, Major Tom.<br>
:''Dean refers to Sam as "Major Tom" of "Star Command." This is a reference to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Oddity_%28song%29 the David Bowie song, "Space Oddity."] The song later plays during [[6.09 Clap Your Hands If You Believe]].''}}
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'''Dean:'''Why don't you control your OCD.''...?<br>:''OCD stands for Obsessive-Complusive Disorder, a psychiatric disorder.''}}
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'''Dean:''' Looks like you lost it, Poindexter.<br>
:''First introduced as a character in the Felix the Cat television cartoon series in 1958, the term "Poindexter" is now applied to people who are overly nerdy, geeky, or bookish.''}}
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'''Bobby:''' Let's get the hell out of Dodge before someone finds that body.<br>
:''Dodge City, Kansas was the temporary home to Wyatt Earp and was known for several famous shoot-outs.''}}
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The cinematography in the scenes depicting the alien abduction of the frat boy are highly reminiscent of The X-Files. John Shiban, the writer of this episode, also wrote for The [[X-Files]].}}
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'''Dean:''' What? You mean between the angry spirit and uh... the sexed up ET?
:''[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083866/ ''E.T.:''] Huge schmaltzy 1982 Spielberg movie featuring a stranded cute alien and an even cuter seven year old Drew Barrymore. The alien had a long finger that glowed.''}}
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The use of the Trickster character, in particular the names [[Loki]] and [[Anansi]], is a reference to the work of [[Neil Gaiman]], the novelist and graphic novel author of which [[Eric Kripke]] has admitted being a fan. Gaiman frequently uses Tricksters in his fiction, and his recent novel was concerned primarily with [[Anansi]].}}
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The name "Starla" for the blonde barfly (in Sam's version of events) is a possible reference to ''[[The Simpsons'']], which featured a trashy, bleached-blonde barfly of that name (her most famous line is, "Can I have the keys to the car, lover? I feel like changing wigs.").}}
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The band [http://www.myspace.com/junkfood Junk Food] won a CW competition on MySpace to have their song "Next To You" included in the show. It plays while Sam and Dean are in the bar.}}
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The way boys relating their mutually contradictory accounts of events shown in flashback to Bobby, who then determines the episode truth, is tolda take on the 1950 movie ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashomon_%28film%29 Rashomon]'', with the differing viewpoints in which four people tell mutually contradictory versions of events shown in flashback and the boys, final account is very similar assumed to be the truth. The method was also used in an X-Files episode, "Bad Blood", on which John Shiban (the writer of this episode) was a co-producer.}}
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The boys are staying in a hotel called "Kings Lair" in room 12.}}
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'''Dean:''' That's where the frat boy had his close encounter.<br>
:''A [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close_encounters close encounter] is an event in which a person witnesses a UFO. This could also be a reference [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close_Encounters_of_the_Third_Kind Close Encounters of the Third Kind], another Spielberg movie about aliens who come to Earth.}} {{TriviaQuote |Text=The boys relating their mutually contradictory accounts of events shown in flashback to Bobby, who then determines the truth, is a take on the 1950 movie ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashomon_%28film%29 Rashomon]'', in which four people tell mutually contradictory versions of events shown in flashback and the final account is assumed to be the truth.}}
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The Trickster reads a Weekly World News about a cannibal wielding a chainsaw, and later creates this cannibal to fight Sam, Dean, and Bobby. This could be a reference to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leatherface Leatherface] from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Texas_Chain_Saw_Massacre The Texas Chainsaw Massacre], except the cannibal shown in the WWN is said to have killed his family, where Leatherface and his family are cannibals working together.}}
