This episode was a tribute to Vladimir Nabokov's novel "Lolita", with character names borrowed from the book for this episode such as Annabel, Hazes, Richard F. Schiller, and Ramsdale.
The address for the record shop "As The Vinyl Turns" is given as 239 Bleecker Street. There actually is a record shop at this address, although in real life it is called "Bleecker Street Records".
First instance of Olivia speaking Spanish. Mariska Hargitay speaks Spanish, English, French, Italian and Hungarian fluently.
Detective Stabler described Annabel Hayes as being "non compos mentis" after finding the dead body of her tenant, which is Latin for "not of sound mind." As a legal term it is used to describe someone who is in a confused state, intoxicated, or similarly mentally impaired. It usually refers to a person has no rational mind or judgement, and whose behavior is nonsense. Her behavior would not stand up to the legal definition and was a "politically correct" way for the detective to say hysterical. Hysteria is an antiquated term describing a state of ungovernable emotional excess that only occurs in females, not males. The first season is filled with countless more examples of attempts to be more sensitive and politically correct.