Early in the episode, Andrea asks "Who would want to go to college in Cicely, Alaska?"; Cicely, Alaska was the fictional setting of the contemporaneous television show "Northern Exposure", which perhaps not coincidentally starred actor John Corbett, real-life close friend of Jason Priestley.
Andrea (Gabrielle Carteris) has a nightmare regarding college plans. In it she is an acrobat on the high wire. in 1991, Carteris was in Circus of the Stars, performing a high wire act. In fact, she's wearing the same costume on the show that she's wearing in her dream.