Titus' straight coach is based on Bob Corff, a Los Angeles-based dialogue coach who specializes in helping actors avoid gay speech inflections.
During a conversation near the start of the episode, Kimmy and her boyfriend are talking and he mentions that Dong wants to be more than friends and says "he wants to shoop baby, shoop". This is a reference to the Salt N Pepa song "Shoop" as it the first words heard on the track.