This episode contains several references to the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, Writer/Producer Tom Greene's favorite film: the characters Frank Poole and Officer Bowman take their names from characters in the movie (as does Roger Floyd in the episode SPEED DEMONS). K.I.T.T. also paraphrases HAL, the 2001 computer, by saying, "I'm sorry, Michael, but I can't do that."