Quinn's alter ego's message to him, dubbed in auditorially, was, word for word, "Never try to slide before your preset time runs out..."
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In the dinner scene at the end the characters propose several ideas that would become episodes throughout the series. Arturo says that Einstein regretted giving the world the atom bomb; they would enter a world where he did in fact not give the world the bomb in Last Days (1995). Rembrandt says he might still be singing out there, and would visit a world where he became so famous he faked his death and became an Elvis like figure in The King Is Back (1995).
The book Quinn has on his chest while asleep in one of the first scenes is "Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps and the Tenth Dimension" by Michio Kaku.
The sleazy attorney Ross J. Kelly is likely a send-up of Larry H. Parker, a real life attorney in Southern California whose TV commercials in the 90s (and after) were very similar to the one depicted on the show. They included testimonials from injured people telling how much money Parker had won for them, along with the same slogan as Kelly, "I will fight for you."