When Media appears as David Bowie, she/he quotes several lyrics from Bowie songs: "Beating up the wrong guy" from Life on Mars, "Your circuit's dead" from A Space Oddity, "there's a terror in knowing what Mr. World is about", instead of "what THE world is about" from Under Pressure (a collaboration with Queen) and "putting out fire with gasoline" from Cat People.
The poem Mr. Wednesday quotes while being interrogated by the police is "Madam Life's A Piece Of Bloom" by the English late-Victorian era writer William Ernest Henley.
The first time to stop motion is featured in a vignette.
Media (as Bowie) says she was around when the Martians invaded in 1938. This is in reference to Orson Welles' infamous radio broadcast of 'War of the Worlds.' It was convincing enough that a few small, isolated areas of the country were convinced that there really WAS an alien invasion.
Laura say she waited for 13 months, "a baker's year." Traditionally 13 is a baker's dozen because bakers used to taste test the 13th cake/bun/etc leaving a full dozen for the customer.