References To Past Episodes
- Tony previously dreamed about being in his father's Cadillac (including the blurry background) in the Season 4 episode, "Calling All Cars."
- When Tony wakes up in bed next to Carmine and the phone rings, he says to Tony, "answer the fucking thing," which is what Carmine said to Johnny Sack in the episode "Fortunate Son", when Johnny's cell phone was ringing.
- The dream-sequence conversation between Tony and Gloria Trillo (who appeared in "He Is Risen", "The Telltale Moozadell", "Pine Barrens", "Amour Fou", "Everybody Hurts", and "Calling All Cars") references events that were revealed in earlier episodes: Tony once hit and choked Gloria, Gloria died too young to have children, and Tony's mother once threatened to poke out her son's eye with a fork.
- In the episode "Amour Fou", Tony orders Patsy Parisi to get control of the situation with Gloria by taking a test drive with her. Patsy pulls over in an isolated area and threatens Gloria with a gun, telling her in not so many words, to stay away from Tony or they would be "scraping nipples off these fine leather seats." He then gets into his Cadillac, which was already parked at the scene.
- John Heard, who represents Finn's father in the episode, is the same actor who played a pivotal role as crooked cop Detective Vin Makazian in "Meadowlands", "Pax Soprana", "Boca", and "Nobody Knows Anything".
- The chase frames evoke the angry mob scene in The Hunchback of Notre Dame and recall The Sopranos episodes, "Denial, Anger, Acceptance" in which Shlomo Teittleman likened Tony to a golem or a Frankenstein; in that same episode Tony tells Dr. Melfi that it bothered him. In "For All Debts Public and Private", Bobby Baccalieri tells Tony, "Mom started going downhill after the World Trade Center. You know Quasimodo predicted all this".
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