Tubbs' refusal to kiss Trudy when she is posing as his girlfriend on a conjugal visit is referenced in Streetwise (1986) when Tubbs, posing as Trudy's pimp, asks her to give him a kiss, to which she replies, "Aha! You had your chance!"
The final five minutes of this episode (where Castillo rescues Tubbs to the music of "In Dulce Decorum") are considered by many the best ending of the third season.
Notably, this is one of the few episodes in which Crockett is prominently featured, yet plays almost no part in the climactic confrontation (instead remaining in the surveillance van while Castillo saves Tubbs).
The underpass where Tubbs is pulled over by the cops for running a toll booth in his Aston Martin V8 Volante is seen several times in later seasons; most notably it is the spot where Borbon is taken from Crockett and Tubbs in Freefall (1989).