The title of the episode refers to the game some programmers play on their computers. The game, called Collosal Cave Adventure and written originally on Fortran by Will Crowther on 1976, and expanded by Don Woods on 1977, was one of the first computer games and the origin of conversational games. AMC launched a web version of the game soon after this episode was aired.
Twice, Gordon Clark touches the chief engineer of Kazoku on the shoulder, which is a serious etiquette no-no with the Japanese.