
- The episode title is a play on the 1972 film 1931: Once Upon a Time in New York.
- Lester's holding a card that says "Butt" is a reference to an answer given on The Newlywed Game by a bride in response to a question regarding the weirdest place she had ever wanted to have sex with her new husband.[1]
- The Hotel Spitzer is a reference to former New York Governor Elliot Spitzer.
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