Phyllis says the same twelve cliches every time it rains. According to Jim's list, they are:
- The plants are going to love this.
- I sure don't want to get stuck in this on the way home.
- It's raining cats and dogs.
- The humidity is going to make my hair freak.
- The roads are slickest in the first half hour.
- I actually sleep better in the rain.
- We're paying for all the sun we got this year.
- This weather just makes me want to stay at home, curled up with a good book.
- If we lived in Seattle, every day would be like this.
- I wish I were allowed one rain check a year.
- I love the smell after it rains.
Creed and Robert jinx in the conference room and Creed says "Jinx. Buy me some coke". This mirrors Jim and Pam in Drug Testing (2006) where they jinx and Pam says to Jim "Jinx! Buy me a Coke." Although, Creed is not talking about soda.
Dwight says Captain Mutato is half man half mermaid. Rainn Wilson's character "Bill Hudley" in the movie House of 1000 Corpses was made into a half man half mermaid.
This is the second time Andy punches a hole in the wall Darryl says "he does not like that wall" referencing the first time he did it.
Dwight's X-Men fan-fiction character is half-man, half-mermaid. There already is a half-human, half-merman character related to the X-Men called Namor the Sub-Mariner, and he is Marvel's first superhero. In addition, Namor is a romantic rival to Mister Fantastic, who was played by John Krasinski in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022). Furthermore, Namor made his live-action debut in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022) which also featured Martin Freeman, who played Jim's British counterpart Tim in The Office (2001).