CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

Sara: Of course I wouldn't expect Winnie the Pooh. Edward 'Winnie-the-Pooh' Bear, sometimes referred to as Pooh, is a fictional bear created by A. A. Milne. He appears in the books Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) and The House at Pooh Corner(1928). The hyphen was later dropped when Walt Disney Productions adapted the Pooh stories into a series of Winnie the Pooh featurettes which became one of the company's most successful franchises worldwide.

Grissom: I'll take Jimminy Cricket. Jiminy Cricket is a fictional character who first appeared in the 1940 Walt Disney animated film Pinocchio. He was appointed by the Blue Fairy to serve as the official conscience for Pinocchio. He is also a comical and wise partner who accompanies Pinocchio on his adventures.

Leon Madera: He suffers from Renfields syndrome. Renfield syndrome, also known as clinical vampirism, is a mental disorder somewhat recognised by doctors in modern times as the obsession to drink blood. The term was first coined by Richard Noll and is named after Dracula's insect-eating assistant, Renfield, in the novel by Bram Stoker.

Grissom: Pica? Dr. Robbins: Boo? Peekaboo is a game similar to hide and seek, but played with babies. In the game, one (child, teenager, or adult) hides their face, pops back into the baby's view, and says — to the baby's amusement — Peekaboo! I see you! Dr. Robbins was trying, unsuccessfully, to make a pun with the medical condition pica.

Little Lord Fauntleroy Brass tells the mother she'll have no more access to Little Lord Fauntleroy. This is a reference to the famous novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, published in 1886 (previously serialised). It's about a young innocent American child, Cedric, who finds he's the sole heir to a British earldom and travels to England to reside in a castle. He is joined by his mother 'Dearest'. It's an odd reference in some ways because Cedric's mother's love is in no way incestuous and is probably over-sentimental if anything.

With the mother's letters to a patient sounding a lot like incest it clearly references the book Oedipus Rex, a novel about a king who accidentally married his mother the queen. Freud made an analysis as a son's in love with their mother, but the Head of the Ward classified it as a Jocasta syndrome (Mother in love with her son)

Grissom & Sofia: You've come a long way.... Baby This reference was to a famous, long-running series of cigarette ads by Virginia Slims. The ads featured women being finally allowed the 'privilege' of smoking. Apparently, back in the '40s and '50s it was illegal for women to smoke, especially in public. When the ads came out, the tag line "You've Come A Long Way, Baby" would be featured, under a picture of an attractive, successful-looking woman, freely and happily smoking a cigarette. Usually, another picture, often in black and white of a "crueler, non-feminist time" when women couldn't smoke, would be featured as well. These ads were later eliminated, due to lobby groups attempting to make ads for cigarettes illegal.

Grissom: You found a license plate? Grissom and Robbins are talking about had a line from the 1975 film Jaws in which Hooper pulls a license plate out of a shark to which Chief Brody asks "Did he eat a car?"