The charity Invisible Children is mentioned various times. Invisible Children is in fact a real charity providing aid to war-affected children and supported by Ryan Hansen and his wife. Hansen, Kristen Bell, and Jason Dohring
can often be seen on the show wearing the Invisible Children bracelet. At the end of the episode after the credits, Kristen Bell, Jason Dohring, and Ryan Hansen ask for the viewers' support of the charity.
When Veronica (Kristen Bell) presses the re-dial button on Apollo's (Nelsan Ellis) phone to find out who he was talking to, a girl on the other end answers "Silver Pictures". Silver Pictures is the production company for VM created by Joel Silver, who, of course, is the executive producer of the show.
In this episode, which features one of Nelsan Ellis's first onscreen performances, Ellis plays a Ugandan former child soldier. One of Nelsan Ellis's final onscreen performances was in the Elementary episode "Moving Targets" (which aired only two months before Ellis's death); that also contained a subplot about a Ugandan former child soldier.
The deputies Keith Mars (Enrico Colantoni) gives assignments to at the beginning of the episode, "Kitsis and Horowitz", are named after screenwriters Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz, at the time best known for their work on the TV shows Popular (1999), Felicity (1998) and Birds of Prey (2002).
This episode incorporates the non-profit organisation Invisible Children which was founded by Jason Russell, Bobby Bailey, and Laren Poole. Invisible Children (2006) is also the title of the documentary by the organisation founders. Ryan Hansen (Dick Casablancas Jr.) is the brother-in-law of Invisible Children founder Jason Russell.