Trivia / Murder She Wrote S 5 E 10 Weave A Tangled Web

• Actor Allusion: Augie Spector taps loudly on Jessica's birdcage containing a little yellow bird, a reference to The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945). In that film, Angela Landsbury sings a song called "Goodbye Little Yellow Bird," about a caged yellow bird.
• Continuity Nod: This episode gets indirectly mentioned later in Mirror, Mirror on the Wall when Sherriff Metzger points out that he's had 5 murders that year (this episode's being the second) despite his earlier belief that Cabot Cove is a sleepy little town where hardly anything happens.