The music and setting of the "wiffleball execution" are the same as when Fredo is killed in The Godfather Part II (1974).
The mother of the TP'ed house crying "Why? Why?" in Kyle's dream is a take off of figure skater Nancy Kerrigan saying the same words when she was attacked on the knees. Later in the episode, actual news footage of Kerrigan saying it, is used.
Kyle's refusal to TP a house with kids in it is based on a scene in Scarface (1983).
This episode makes repeated references to The Silence of the Lambs (1991).