Early in the episode, a copy of a famous play by Anton Chekhov, Uncle Vanya, can be seen when Major (Robert Buckley) puts a gun into a drawer. "Chekhov's Gun," named after the playwright, is a famous writing principle. It refers to the idea that, if a gun is shown in the first half of a play, it must be fired in the second half of the play.
The fictional Seattle based delivery company Ufreighteze is a thinly-veiled spoof of the real-world drone delivery plans of Amazon (with their Amazon Prime Air service). Amazon is named after the river, while Ufreighteze is a word play on Euphrates, another large river, and the word freight in the middle tipping a hat to their logistics service. Amazon also have their headquarters in Seattle.
The Chapter title "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot" is a military phrase using the NATO phonetic alphabet for WTF or "what the f***?".
Percy Daggs III (Sean Taylor) starred in Veronica Mars (2004), as well as the film adaptation, Veronica Mars (2014). Rob Thomas created both iZombie and Veronica Mars.