- At One point, Alan appears to have been involved in an act of civil disobedience gone horribly wrong as a young man. He wasn't, but Judd Hirsch played a similar role in Sidney Lumet's Running on Empty.
- At the end of "Blackout" the Eppes men settle down to watch some classic TV. Heard from the TV is Bob James' "Angela", which is better known as the theme to Taxi. Judd Hirsch, who plays the Eppes patriarch, also starred as Alex Rieger in Taxi.
- When it is discovered that Larry's been living in the Steam Tunnels, Mildred mentions Dungeons and Dragons there. Peter MacNicol portrayed the male lead of the Dragonslayer movie.
- An episode had a character make a veiled threat to have Don reassigned to Alaska. His reaction: "Never been there".
- In the fifth season finale James Callis, fresh off from his role as Gaius Baltar on Battlestar Galactica, plays an insane cult leader with a harem of women eager to serve his every need. He is, however, computer illiterate.
- A possibly unintentional one occurs with guest star Armin Shimerman, whose character is accused of taking a bribe and indignantly replies that his integrity would never be for sale. Shimerman is best known as Quark of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, a character from a species whose hat is pursuit of profit above all else.
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