General
- The fact that Deb was a contestant on Survivor is brought up repeatedly, and at one point even shown in flashback.
Episode 2: Deb's BBQ
- The climactic monologue from My Cousin Vinny is the answer to the final security question.
Episode 3: Backache Mountain
- The episode title and the character of Ennis are a Shout Out to Brokeback Mountain.
- While flying to Wyoming, Twink naturally dresses up as the sexy stewardess portrayed by Britney Spears in her Toxic music video.
- Twink (without any real knowledge of the movie or the actual person) poses as "reporter" Erin Brockovich.
Episode 4: EuropeVision
- The episode is based on the Eurovision Song Contest.
- Wondering if he's expected to swallow a giant prawn as part of a Gyenorvyan "toast", Twink asks if this is like his audition for Teen Wolf. Series creator Jeff Davis is gay and there was often a lot of fan speculation that he had a Casting Couch for all the many Mr. Fanservice guys that appeared on the show.
- Princess Mira of Gyenorvya is a direct lift from Princess Mia and The Princess Diaries:
- "Shut. Up!"
- She also mentions having slept with Chris Pine.
Episode 5: WeHo Confidential
- The episode title is a reference to L.A. Confidential.
- Chasten Barkley makes an offhand comment about blood plasma taken from an orphan as being one of the secrets to his appearance. This seems to be a reference to urban legends that real life tech billionaire Peter Thiel gets blood plasma from younger men as a part of a Longevity Treatment.
- In a flashback to his younger self drunk and wallowing with Chasten in a bar, Mary makes a direct reference to James Bond.
Episode 6: The Secretaries' Ball
- When he finds himself standing on a floating invisible drone at Chunley's all-male party at Intellicon, Mary says that he feels like Jasmine...er...Aladdin. This would not be his last Shout Out to a Disney property.
Episode 7: Tarzana
- Mary, and V, perform Meat Loaf's "I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)" in a karaoke bar.
Episode 8: Greyscale
- Jane Lynch voices a character, Judy, who is a former AIA agent and dead ringer for Sue Sylvester from Glee. Which is a double Shout Out because in-show Sue always used to claim that she had a background in espionage.
- Trying to make contact with Andrew, one of the greyscaled AIA agents living in Palm Springs, Mary compares him to King Triton from The Little Mermaid (1989) who he admits he had a sexual thing for as a kid. Andrew similarly confesses to having had a similar childhood thing for the fox hero in Robin Hood (1973).
Episode 9: The Coeur de la Mer
- Caryn, having been living off the grid for decades, asks the squad if ALF is still around.
- The Coeur de la Mer, the eponymous AIA top secret mainframe, is French for "Heart of the Ocean". When the team finally arrives at the Coeur it resembles a giant blue heart-shaped gem, like the necklace of the same name from Titanic (1997).
Episode 10: The Hole
- The Trigger Phrase to deactivate Project Grayscale is "Debra Winger has been in enough movies."
