The inmates want to watch Sex and the City (1998) and Ryan (Dean Winters) says he would like to have sex with Sarah Jessica Parker. Winters guest starred as Carrie's casual sex partner in that show's second season.
While the inmates are watching their game show Robert Iler who plays A.J. Soprano on The Sopranos (1999), another HBO show, plays a contestant.
In his opening monologue Hill wonders how many words the average person says in their lifetime. British author and actor Gyles Brandreth wrote a book on the subject once, in it he estimated the average person speaks 860,341,500 words in their lifetime. For perspective 860 million words would be equivalent to reading aloud the complete 20-volume, 21,730 page Oxford English Dictionary 14 times.