When Bones talks about the advantages of the artisan products, Sweets says that he started to appreciate the manual work when he worked in a disco store and made an inventory of the vinyl records, mentioning T-Rex's "20th Century Boy", which happens to be the song that Sweets and Bones dance at the end of the chapter.
When Fischer and Brennan are investigating the bones in the lab he makes a comment asking Brennan to tell him about the French nobleman who bathed in the blood of children. The nobleman's name was Gilles de Rais.
The intern, Colin Fisher, tells about the serial killer Ed Gein who was arrested for murder and whose home was found to contain various objects made of human remains. This is a reference to Edward Gein who in the 1950's in Wisconsin was found to be responsible for killing two people and robbing several graves. He was subsequently tried and convicted for one murder and sentenced to life imprisonment which he spent in a mental hospital.