At the beginning of this episode, you hear various radio programs while the satellite is flying above earth, and the final voices are Danielle and Elvis from Elvis Duran Morning Show!
At 33:56, Vasily Fet is the first character to utter the words "the strain", the name of the series.
When actor David Bradley, who is playing the character "Abraham Setrakian," leaves the house in Ozone Park, Queens, NY on his way back to Harlem, NY in the yellow taxi they drive past "Wagener's Meat Products" which is in Toronto, Canada, not New York.