When Pam Grier (Kit) struts confidently down a prison corridor, soul-funk guitar music plays, homage for Grier's low-budget women-in-prison films in the early 1970's (that was also revisited in Jackie Brown, making this a double homage).
The first and only episode where a very unlikely (if impossible) couple, Bette (Jennifer Beals) and Shane (Katherine Moenig), kiss... although it's an imagining of the movie producer as he explains what he wants their based-upon characters to do. Same goes with Bette and her once-rival Helena, which would be even more unlikely: Tina points out they're too much alike.