The line "We released ourselves of our own recognizance" is also said in the movie "Raising Arizona," referencing another Coen brothers project.
Nurse Mayflower puts syrup of ipacac into her pie. Ipacac was used in households to induce vomiting, usually when poisons were ingested. It can cause death in large doses.
At the beginning of the episode, Swanee Capps and Zelmaire Roulette escape from prison through a drain pipe, scream in celebration and go straight to a bathroom to freshen up just like Gale and Evelle at the beginning of Raising Arizona, a Coen Brothers film.
A captive bolt gun is used at the slaughterhouse, much like the one used by legendary Coen Brothers villain Anton Chigur in No Country for Old Men (2007).
The Kingdom of Mercy Funeral Home is actually Pomierski & Son Funeral Home, 1059 W. 32nd St., Chicago, Illinois, USA. This is a actual funeral home in the Bridgeport neighborhood that is still in business. Even though, in the episode, it shows a bus going down the street, 32nd St. never had a bus route.