Sgt. Jeffords is revealed to have hidden artistic talents and fills in for the precinct sketch artist. In real life Terry Crews (the actor who plays Sgt. Jeffords) is also a talented artist and used to draw and paint on the side to get extra money to support his family during his football days.
As a prelude to the long-running gag "title of your sex tape," Peralta responds to Santiago saying "I could go on and on and on" with "...is something no lover of yours has ever said."
In this episode, Terry Jeffords (Terry Crews) has to sketch the description of a criminal, due to the normal sketch artist calling in sick. This actually happened to Terry Crews in real life, where he got his first job in the local news station as a sketch artist due to the regular artist calling in sick.
At the beginning of the episode when Jake is pranking Amy while she is out on a date, Jake says that Captain Holt wanted everyone back at the precinct because he had information on the Nightingale Strangler. The Nightingale murders/Killer was a key plot element in the movie Frequency (2000) in which Andre Braugher (Captain Holt) starred in.