Julie Stewart, who plays "Paint Store Clerk," and says to Karen, "Cold case? Who cares?" - is well known as Sgt. Ali McCormick on all seven seasons of Cold Squad (1998) a Canadian police crime-drama about a team of Vancouver police officers in charge of investigating and solving "cold" cases.
The stores sign reads FOO AR ET in this episode when later on in the series it reads FOO MAR T and is always refered to as the Foo Mart
The first appearance of the mayor of Dog River, Fitzy Fitzgerald (Cavan Cunningham).
It is also shown that Davis was already a cop in Dog River in 1986, which makes him older than Brent and Hank.
In the opening scene, Lacey refers to the ancient Roman symbols for male and female. This gets complicated. The ancient Roman pantheon included the god of war, Mars, and the godess of love and fertility, Venus. In the 15th century the planets (named after Roman gods) got their own alchemical symbols. In the 1700s, Linneaus used the alchemical symbols for manly Mars and girly Venus to indicate gender in plants and animals.