In this crossover episode, Florence Stanley appears as Judge Margaret Wilbur from the NBC sitcom, My Two Dads (1987). Richard Moll appeared in the episode Playing with Fire (1989) as Officer Bull Shannon, who was serving as a bodyguard for Judge Wilbur.
The litigants in the Van Doren v. Stempel case are named after two players who competed on the game show Twenty-One (1956) in 1956 and 1957: Charles Van Doren and Herb Stempel. Their rivalry was portrayed in Quiz Show (1994).
When Harry views the tattoo on the female mechanic's chest and asks, "Is that Manny, Moe, and Jack?", he's referring to the founders of the Pep Boys chain of auto repair shops.
This was Florence Stanley's second appearance on Night Court (1984). She previously appeared in the episode Murder (1987), as a woman who cheerfully confessed to shooting her husband.