Cultural References
- Referencing Indiana Jones, Warren calls Jonathan "Short Round", a character in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.
- The scene where they use the disk to find the spot on the map references a similar scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark.
- Summing the episode's "Entropy" theme, Tara paraphrases William Butler Yeats' The Second Coming, saying "Things fall apart, they fall apart so hard."
- The disk is inscribed with unknown symbols in a spiral, loosely resembling the Phaistos Disk.
- Xander references the famous quote by George Mallory when arguing with Anya about her sleeping with Spike. When she says she slept with him "because he was there," Xander replies, "What is he, Mount Everest?" The original quote was when Mallory was asked why he wanted to climb Mount Everest. He replied, "Because it's there."
- Andrew refers to Jonathon saying, "He's got that same look on his face, though. The one he had that time I highlighted in his Babylon 5 novels..."
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