Tanya switches off a TV on which her siblings are watching the original Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead (1991).
When the babysitter is found dead, one of the Crandell children suggests that they take her body to a funeral home and leave it there with a note. Ayaamii Sledge's character Melissa Crandell, the most tech-savvy sibling, replies, "It's not 1991! Use your head! There are cameras everywhere." The suggestion is exactly what the Crandell children did in the original Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead (1991), which was released into theaters in 1991.
Miles Fowler's character reveals that he will be attending Syracuse University in the fall. Screenwriter Chuck Hayward graduated from Syracuse in 2002.