The episode's name "The Mother of Exiles" is actually another name of The Statue of Liberty in New York City, It was named by the poet Emma Lazarus in a Sonnet called "The New Colossus".
An instrumental version of the song Wicked Games by The Weeknd is playing at the party.
At 19:10 Serac says "it exists now only in my mind", paraphrasing the last line spoken by The Narrator in The Road Warrior (1981) regarding the fate of Mad Max.