History ShoutOut / TheXFilesSeasonsFourToSix

* Mulder’s and Scully’s new boss is named Kersh, after characters Dr. Kersh and Anton Kersh from ''Vampire Circus''.

* Doing a [[RobertDeNiro DeNiro]] impression:

* The "Music/RideOfTheValkyries" composed by Creator/RichardWagner is heard in the background shortly after Mulder’s futile attempt to stop the runaway [=RV=] that eventually rolls to a halt on its own.

* The RideOfTheValkyries composed by Creator/RichardWagner is heard in the background shortly after Mulder’s futile attempt to stop the runaway [=RV=] that eventually rolls to a halt on its own.

** Emil’s adopted family name of “Sim'' is taken from actor Alastair Sim who played [[Film/{{Scrooge 1951}} Ebenezer]] [[WesternAnimation/AChristmasCarol Scrooge]].

* Phillip Padgett is seen smoking a “‘Morley’” brand cigarette, again the name of fictional brand that not only appeared in the series but also in ''Film/MurderInTheFirst'', ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/200_Cigarettes 200 Cigarettes]]'', ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', ''Series/TheOuterLimits'', ''NashBridges'', ''Series/That70sShow'', ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mannix Mannix]]'', ''Series/MissionImpossible'', ''Series/{{ER}}'', ''Series/{{Friends}}'', ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_August Dan August]]'', ''[[Series/SpaceAboveAndBeyond Space: Above and Beyond]]'', ''Series/TheTwilightZone'', ''Series/TheDickVanDykeShow'', ''[[Series/BeverlyHills90210 Beverly Hills, 90210]]'', ''Series/{{Millennium}}'', ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murderers%27_Row_%28film%29 Murderer’s Row]]''and ''Series/{{Becker}}''.

--> '''Langly:''' Hey lady, if you want to watch {{Matlock}} with [[Series/TheAndyGriffithShow Andy Griffith]] all blue and squiggly, go right ahead and buy from this guy. But, if you want quality bootleg cable, you talk to me.

* Betty the tattoo’s voice actress JodieFoster appeared in an episode of the {{sitcom}} in one of her earlier [[ActorAllusion roles]] called ''The Eleven Year Itch''.

* Mulder pouts upon finding a newspaper with headline "ElvisPresley dead at 42" when he and Scully go through the Peacock’s house.

* Editor [[{{Tuckerization}} Walden Roth]] who buys Cigarette Smoking Man’s story is named after [[Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox 20th Century Fox]]’s head of drama Dana Walden and President Peter Roth of the Entertainment Group for Fox Broadcasting Company.

'''Jeff Glaser:''' No, [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0293702/ When Animals Attack!]] on the [[TwentiethCenturyFox Fox]] Network.

--> '''Patrick Crump:'' What do I... I’m... I’m like Series/{{Quincy}}? How the hell should I know what caused it?

* [[{{Tuckerization}} Kurt Crawford]] shares the [[NamesTheSame exact]] name of creator ChrisCarter’s contact at the FBI whom he goes to check facts for accuracy.

* Agent Arthur Dales’ partner [[{{Tuckerization}} Hayes Michel]] was named after then fiancé of ChrisCarter’s executive assistant Mary Astadourian.

* Mutato watches ''Film/{{Mask}}'' starring {{Cher}}.

* Excluding other titles made after this episode, other medias used 'mind’s eyes' include Håkan Nesser’s 1993 novel ''The Mind’s Eye'', a song by Music/{{Wolfmother}}, a pair of Series/DoctorWho audio stories called "The Mind's Eye & Mission of the Viyrans", a series [[Creator/TheBBC BBC]] {{radio drama}} titled ''Mind’s Eye'' set in UsefulNotes/{{Dublin}} about the paranormal, a 1991 book ''In The Mind’s Eye'' by Thomas G. West, American theatrical radio company The Mind’s Eye, a series consisting several art films using computer-generated imagery of varying levels of sophistication, name of an 1986 album as well as a song by Vinnie Moore, the song “‘''The Mind’s Eye''’” by Compos Mentis from ''Gehennesis'', a video analysis research project by the [[TheUnitedStates U.S.]] [[YanksWithTanks Military]] using artificial intelligence, name of a Swedish progressive metal band, video game developer Mind’s Eye Productions based out of the United Kingdom, a 1994 Stiltskin album called ''The Mind’s Eye'', a site in the Cayman Islands, live action role-playing game ''Mind’s Eye Theatre'' based on the Creator/WhiteWolf’s ''[[TabletopGame/TheWorldOfDarkness World of Darkness]]'' universe, and a song by the titular ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}''.

* The name [[{{Tuckerization}} Roush]] is probably a reference to then-[[AmericanNewspapers USA Today]] writer Matt Roush.

* [[ActorAllusion Sidney Lassick]] plays a patient at the New Horizon Psychiatric [[Film/OneFlewOverTheCuckoosNest mental institute]], not to mention [[{{Expy}} Nurse Innes]] is similar to Nurse Ratched.

* Mulder almost ad verbatim a famous quote by a British politician as well as [[UsefulNotes/{{Britain}} Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] in regards to [[SovietRussiaUkraineAndSoOn Soviet Union]] with his line “This whole phenomenon is a mystery wrapped in an enigma wrapped in a government agenda.”

--> '''Joseph [=McCarthy=]:''' Six years ago, at the time of the first conference to map out peace. There was within the [[SovietRussiaUkraineAndSoOn Soviet]] orbit 180 million people. Lined up on the anti-totalitarian side there were in the world at that time roughly 1,625 billion people. Today, only six years later, there are 800 million people under the absolute domination of [[SovietRussiaUkraineAndSoOn Soviet Russia]] – an increase of over 400 percent. On our side, the figure has shrunk to around 500 million. In other words, in less than six years, the odds have changed from nine to one in our favor to eight to five against us.

* [[ActorAllusion Sidney Lassick]] plays a patient at the New Horizon Psychiatric [[Literature/OneFlewOverTheCuckoosNest mental institute]], not to mention [[{{Expy}} Nurse Innes]] is similar to Nurse Ratchett.

--> '''WinstonChurchill:''' I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.

* Excluding other titles made after this episode, other medias used 'mind’s eyes' include Håkan Nesser’s 1993 novel ''The Mind’s Eye'', a song by Music/{{Wolfmother}}, a pair of Series/DoctorWho audio stories called "The Mind's Eye & Mission of the Viyrans", a series [[Creator/TheBBC BBC]] {{radio drama}} titled ''Mind’s Eye'' set in UsefulNotes/{{Dublin}} about the paranormal, a 1991 book ''In The Mind’s Eye'' by Thomas G. West, American theatrical radio company The Mind’s Eye, a series consisting several art films using computer-generated imagery of varying levels of sophistication, name of an 1986 album as well as a song by Vinnie Moore, the song “‘''The Mind’s Eye''’” by Compos Mentis from ''Gehennesis'', a video analysis research project by the [[TheUnitedStates U.S.]] [[YanksWithTanks Military]] using artificial intelligence, name of a Swedish progressive metal band, video game developer Mind’s Eye Productions based out of the United Kingdom, a 1994 Stiltskin album called ''The Mind’s Eye'', a site in the Cayman Islands, live action role-playing game ''Mind’s Eye Theatre'' based on the WhiteWolf’s ''[[TabletopGame/TheWorldOfDarkness World of Darkness]]'' universe, and a song by the titular ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}''.

* Sound effects from ''Franchise/StarCraft'' are used.

* ShirleyTemple’s 1935 film ''Film/TheLittleColonel'' is being watched inside Gretchen Starns’ house.

** Mulder’s response towards the “Gimp” roughing him up in the interrogation scene is almost identical to [[HumphreyBogart Sam Spade]]’s response to [[Film/TheMalteseFalcon Wilmer Cook]] after being roughened up.

* Harold Spuller’s roommate [[{{Tuckerization}} Chuck Forsch]] is named for ChrisCarter’s LosAngeles based assistant.

* When Skinner flips through a filing cabinet, one of the files is labeled “Music/FooFighters,” also a term of unexplained flying objects observed by pilots during WorldWarII.

* The song playing in the German doctor’s house is “‘''Lili Marlene'',’” a German love song popular with soldiers of both sides in WorldWarII.
* J. Edgar Hoover’s paranoid rant[[note]] “In 1945, ''at the time of the first conference to map out the peace, after the [[WorldWarII Second World War]], there lived within the Soviet orbit 180 million people. Lined up on the anti-totalitarian side at that time were one billion, 625 million people. Today, Mr. Dales, just seven years later, there are 800 million people under the absolute domination of Soviet Russia--an increase of over 400 percent. On our side the figure has shrunk to around 500 million. In other words... in less than seven years the odds have changed from nine to one in our favor, to eight to five against us''. The threat of global communist domination is a reality that can be ignored only at the risk of our own annihilation. If we are to defeat the enemy, we must use their tools. We must go further. We must do those things which even our enemies would be ashamed to do. It is only through strength that we can make our enemies fear us, and thereby ensure our own survival. You have one chance, Mr. Dales, to save yourself--to demonstrate that you have the strength to serve your country.”[[/note]] to Arthur Dales about the Communist menace was taken almost verbatim from a speech given by former Wisconsin Republican Senator:

* When speaking to Susanne Modeski, Frohike mentions UsefulNotes/MataHari, born Margaretha Zella, a Dutch citizen achieving fame as an exotic dancer and high-class prostitute executed in 1917, accuse of spying for UsefulNotes/{{Germany}} during WorldWarI where she was actually a spy for UsefulNotes/{{France}}.

* Mulder’s line “the [[{{Islam}} Muslim]] superstition that taking someone's picture is stealing their soul” refers to well-documented belief in societies where practice animist religions where in the Muslim world, an aversion to being photographed may have more to do with a general artistic prohibition on depicting the human form.

* Upon encountering the body of a dead man on the road, Mulder pulls a work order from his pocket for a company named [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telus Telus]], an actual phone company in {{Canada}}.

* The trainer mentions StevieWonder.

* The words "sometimes I remember" which Mulder pronounces at the end belongs to PercyByssheShelley’s poem ''Prometheus Unbound''.