There are many references to the board game Clue/Cluedo. In the film "Clue" there is a character named Wadsworth, and this episode also references characters with the surname Wadsworth, who own Wadsworth Manor homestead. There are also several characters with names matching the board game pieces, including the Reverend Lucas Greene, Miss Brenda White and Dr Roger Plummer (a professor of psychiatry). Janelle works at Peacocke's Florist and has a dog called Moutarde ("Mustard" in French); Declan O'Grady normally plays the part of Colonel Mustard for the group's Cluedo role-playing game. For the featured game, Miss Scarlett is played by Scarlett Ming who has flown in from San Francisco.
The cops go to a funeral parlour named Bugle, but when they go in there is a man attempting to play the saxophone.