When Liz meets Rosemary (Carrie Fisher) at her book signing, Liz exclaims, "You are great! I grew up wanting to be you!" and Rosemary responds, "I grew up wanting to be Samantha Stephens on Bewitched. But the closest I got was being married to a gay guy for two years." This is a reference both to the behind-the-scenes private life of Dick Sargent (the second actor to play Darren Stephens on Bewitched) and to the fact that in her real life, for a few years in the early 1990s, Carrie Fisher's romantic partner was the Hollywood agent Bryan Lourd (father of Fisher's only child, her daughter, Billie) before Lourd left her for a man.
When Jack is playing Tracy's father in therapy, he mentions busting up a chifforobe for a nickel, he is referencing To Kill a Mockingbird.
As Liz is leaving Rosemary's apartment, Rosemary yells after her "Help me Liz Lemon! You're my only hope!" - a clear reference to Star Wars: A New Hope in which Carrie Fisher's (Rosemary) character Leia leaves a message for Obi-Wan, saying "Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope."
When Rosemary wants to collaborate on her screenplay idea with Liz, Liz asks her what it is about, and Rosemary replies, "women in their 50s join the Army and get laid by a bunch of grateful 18-year-olds." However, the closed captions for the episode say, "go on Spring Break" instead of "join the Army." This sort of discrepancy sometimes happens when there is a last-minute ad lib or a post-production redub that renders the script submitted to the captioning company incorrect.
Alec Baldwin once played a role based on Carrie Fisher's real life stepfather. The Marrying Man (1991) was based on the marriages of shoe millionaire Harry Karl and starlet Marie McDonald. After Karl and McDonald divorced for the second time, he married Debbie Reynolds and became Fisher's stepdad for a period of time.