- Kelly's nickname was inspired by an incident with my cousins and "squirrel fishing" as well as the mob of squirrels on my campus.
- Rick Walker's younger brother TJ was named after a certain kids' TV show character played by Selwyn Ward, and the baseball obsession grew from there.
- The line "The horror! The horror!" is from Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, one of the few seminar readings in my AP English class that I couldn't stand to finish.
- Mulder's observation about a grinning dog being "a damned good dog or a biting one" is from Stephen King's The Stand.
- The lime green Del Sol belongs to my friend Jen, who inspired the explanation that it can be found in any parking lot.
- Rick: "Come on. He's my Dad. He's supposed to say that." Directly ripped off from Megabyte's line in the last part of "The Culex Experiment" serial of The Tomorrow People.
- Rick's suggestion that Kelly and Romeo act like siblings is a jab at a scrapped Season 4 episode in which Romeo's sister Kelly was supposed to come to Videoland and drive him up the wall.
- Kevin: "This must be a Tuesday. I could never get the hang of Tuesdays." Arthur Dent's comment about Thursdays in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy when he learns that the Earth is about to be destroyed.
- Kelly: "I can translate salivating boy talk. He says you look great." One of my favorite lines from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, in the episode "Inca Mummy Girl."
- The Well-Manicured Man's mention about "Mallory's theories" is a nod to Sliders, of course. Most of that conversation was inspired by the X-Files movie.
- Romeo and Simon's pancakes versus waffles argument was spawned from a running joke in the #Captain_N IRC chat room. Matt Slater and Mark Moore will probably never forgive me for this one. :)
- Dakota Jones is from Christine Morgan's fanfics.
