Lance Sweets John Francis Daley auditions his band to play at the nightclub. The band seen auditioning (with the exception of Daisy) is John Francis Daley's actual, real life band- Dayplayer
This is the first episode where all "Squints" introduced this far in the series appear together along with main characters. This will only happen a few more times during the run of the series.
Jack Hodgins was named after an author friend of series creator Hart Hanson. Hodgins being portrayed a writer in this alternate-universe episode is likely a reference to this.
The main titles were not used in this episode to emphasize that this is alternate story separate from the main storyline.
At the start of the episode Booth's alarm clock reads 4:47. This is the first time reference to the numbers 447 are used in the series. It goes on to be a regularly occurring number of significance, throughout the rest of the series run, becoming an Easter egg for many diehard fans of the show.