The celebrities at the Karne Institute for Sexual Addition are Michael Douglas, Michael Jordan, Ben Roethlisberger, David Duchovny, Charlie Sheen, David Letterman, President Bill Clinton, Billy Bob Thornton, Kobe Bryant, Eliot Spitzer, and of course, Tiger Woods.
The episode mainly references the Tiger Woods marriage scandal where Woods ex-wife Elin Nordegren found out that Woods had an affair and divorced him a year later
The plot regarding the US soldier disguised as an alien wizard at Independence Hall is taken from the movie The Village (2004) by M. Night Shyamalan.