After Boyle starts playing the song "All Night Long", Peralta says "The night shift won't slow us down". The name of the album the song is from is "Can't Slow Down".
First episode to feature Charles repeatedly and pompously correcting people (in this case, Jake) on the pronunciation of his adopted Latvian-born son's name, Nikolaj.
Jake correctly quotes the Jay-Z/Alicia Keys song "Empire State of Mind," though he also correctly points out that the hook makes no grammatical sense.
When driving from the lab to the records building, Jake and Charles perform a side-to-side shoulder sway and head bob to the music, mimicking the characters of Rush Hour (1998), another buddy cop movie.
Prior to the Brooklyn Nine-Nine-New Girl crossover, Stephanie Beatriz and Jason Mantzoukas have participated in the 2015 Young Storytellers festival with Max Greenfield. They would meet again 5 years later for the 2020 Young Storytellers during COVID lock-down.