When June and Moira encounter Luke for the first time at the food stand, the cat photo on June's iPhone that Luke says is cute is a photo of Elisabeth Moss's ginger rescue cats, Lucy and Ethel.
The poem that June remembers at the beginning of the episode, "We fit together like a hook in an eye," is one of Margaret Atwoods poems.
The Commander tells Offred, "Love isn't real, it was never anything more than lust with a good marketing campaign". In the pilot episode of Mad Men, Don Draper says, "What you call love was invented by guys like me, to sell nylons". Elisabeth Moss plays main characters in both shows.
The scripture Serena Joy quotes to June while holding her hands over June's belly is Jeremiah 1:5.