Eleanor mentions "a car you can key or a house you can Left Eye Lopes". In 1994 Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopes got into an argument with her rich football star lover, Andre Rison, and burned down his house. Lopes later claimed she simply meant to burn a few of Rison's shoes, not the entire house.
At the Luau, one of the women in the neighborhood throws her magic rock into the fire and she gets what she most desires, which is her childhood turtle named "Shell Turtlestein". In Modern Family (2009), Rico Rodriguez's character owned a turtle of the same name.
Tahani is constantly name-dropping the famous people she knew on Earth. Here she mentions Robbie Williams, Heidi Klum, some members of Fifth Harmony, Timothée Chalamet, Blake Lively, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Paul Allen.
Brandon Scott Jones (John) and Sheila Carrasco (Matilda) were both in this episode, and later appear together in Ghosts (2021-present).