• The episode title is a play on the 1972 film 1931: Once Upon a Time in New York and a reference to Tyne Daly
• 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]
• When Tyne is chasing Cleveland and the gang at the end, she resembles Marvel superhero She-Hulk.
• The Hotel Spitzer is a reference to former New York Governor Elliot Spitzer.

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