Afsoun Hamidi, the patient, is loosely based on the real performance artist Marina Abramovic whose work Rhythm 0, 1974, where audience members were invited to do whatever they wanted to Abramovic, is the basis behind the performance art portrayed in the episode.
Taub's phone's ringtone is the same as House used on his phone earlier in the series: Rupert Holmes's "Escape (The Piña Colada Song)", which is also a song about a guy who ends up having an affair with his own wife.
House says, "Like the Lindberg baby," referring to Charles Lindbergh Jr., the 20-month-old son of Anne Morrow Lindbergh and Charles A. Lindbergh, kidnapped on March 1, 1932. After a massive search, his body was found two months later.
Taub wants the baby to be named Rueben and jokes it's a family name and that the sandwich was named after them. Over the early seasons of the show, House frequently hails the Rueben as his favorite sandwich.
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