The song played when the parents enter the law firm, is a song from the 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz. It's played throughout the movie whenever the Wicked Witch of the West appears. (edit)

Alan: I don't presume to know whether this is a good war or not, Denny. But there can be no dispute it's a complex one, one that we as a citizenry, as patriots, need to be talking about.
Denny: Here's all you need to know, put me in charge. I'll win the damn thing.
Alan: No doubt. Do you think the army would let two flamingos enlist?
Denny: Don't ask, don't tell. (edit) Alan: (after losing the case) I hope at least somebody heard your screams.
Cassie: If not, then maybe they heard yours. Thank you. (edit) Alan: Private Elliot was for the war. Personally, I was against it. Then I was for it. Then I was against it again. But that's just me. I'm a flip-flopper. (edit) Shirley: Let me read you something by Martin Niemoeller, a German pastor who opposed the Nazis. "In Germany, they came first for the communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time, there was no one left to speak up." (edit) Denise: It's just, though they are together for the purpose of this motion, they're not so much together. And I think having two lawyers, in case there are conflicts.
Shirley: Yes, and you think the senior partner of the firm should be doing this because...
Denise: It'll be fun. Plus, you promised I'd get to try cases with you. (edit) Judge Resnick: Halloween is a secular holiday. More importantly, it's a silly holiday... Children don't see a witch as a symbol of any sort. A witch is just something to enjoy being afraid of. Motion by the plaintiffs is denied. The Halloween pageant will go on as it always has. And I advise both parties to lighten up and remember what Halloween really is all about. The candy! (edit) Alan: We currently have no strategy to fight this war. We have no timetable for getting out. Some of these troops could be extended 20-plus years. Their mothers and fathers have to spring for body armor because the army doesn't, and they're getting killed! And we, as a nation in denial, are letting them. We simply don't seem to care. Well, she does. (points to Cassie) She's in this courtroom honoring one dead soldier. That's a start. (edit) Shirley: At what point does a religion become silly enough that it's okay to make fun of them? And who decides? (edit) Sergeant Jason Hendler (on the witness stand): We're at war, Mr. Shore. We need soldiers. (edit) Denny: (to Alan) I can't look at you right now. (edit) Cassie: I don't want to have sex with you anymore.
Garrett: Yeah. Well, as it turns out, as my client, I'm not supposed to have sex with you anyway.
Cassie: So there we are.
Garrett: There we are. (edit) Denny: Drop the case. Do it now.
Alan: I'm not dropping it, Denny.
Denny: Alan? I'm senior partner. I'm asking you, check that, I'm directing you. Drop it.
Alan: No. (edit) Denny: Most of the Cranes in my family were flamingos. (edit) Alan: What are you thinking about? It's not a trick question.
Denny: Can I have a solitary, pensive moment? Keep a thought to myself?
Alan (laughing): You forgot what you were thinking. (edit) (Denny walks into costume party wearing the same flamingo costume as Alan.)
Denny: Tried it on. Looked good. Kept it on. Doesn't mean I forgive you.
Alan: Got it. Denny, you look pretty in pink.
Denny: Not having sex with you.
Alan: Just the same. (edit) Bob Matthias: What are you going to do, turn me into a toad?
Sam Sawtell: We don't do hexes!
(Punches Bob Matthias in the mouth.)
Sam Sawtell: We do throw punches, occasionally. (edit) Denny: I prefer to be alone. Please leave.
Alan: Why?
Denny: No reason.
Alan: If you were to guess at a reason.
Denny: If I were to guess, I'd say maybe I don't want to socialize with a pinko, liberal, Democrat commie.
Alan: Ahh. (edit) Denny: Alan, I've loved you like a...
Alan: Sister?
Denny: We're Americans. To be critical in a time of war... even the Democrats are smart enough to keep their mouths shut on this. (edit) Brad: Don't you two have anything else to do?
Garrett: We're discussing a case, sir.
Brad: It's not a case. It's an abuse of the judicial process.
Garrett: Yes,... we're discussing that. (edit) Brad: Do you know your briefcase is smoking?
Alan: This is the season, Brad. Bubble, bubble, toil and so forth.
Brad: This is a law firm.
Alan: Thank you for that. (edit)

During the "Burning Times", starting in about 1480 in England & Europe and lasting for hundreds of years, 10's of thousands of people were persecuted and executed as 'witches', many were burned. In Salem, Massachusetts, however, it's strictly myth that there was a similar situation. While there were charges of witchcraft which did result in the execution of fewer than 15 people overall, all of them were hanged; one, a man named Corey, was crushed to death by stones. There were no witch burnings, ever, in the United States. (edit)

Sara: I’m not trying to be disrespectful. I just wanted to feel hot.
Her costume is meant to be that of Condoleezza Rice, the United States Secretary of State when this episode first aired. (edit) Alan Shore: Denny, you look pretty in pink.
James Spader, who portrays Alan Shore, appeared in the 1986 feature film, Pretty in Pink, which also starred Molly Ringwald, Andrew McCarthy, Harry Dean Stanton and Jon Cryer. (edit)