Life On Mars

Sam: Me? Uh, I'm - I'm about risky business with the color of money and, uh, a few good men. Mrs. Collins: Oh really? I'm sorry. Not my cup of meat. Sam: Oh, no, I-I didn't mean... I've got all the right moves. Risky Business, The Color of Money, A Few Good Men, and All the Right Moves are all movies starring actor Tom Cruise. Sam goes by the name Tom Cruise while he is undercover in this episode.

Ronald: Can't believe she did it. Lovely Rita... a killer. "Lovely Rita" is a song from the Beatles' 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

Gene: (talking about a party for swingers) We need to know what goes on there. Sam: Boss, it's when couples have intercourse with each other's partners. Gene: Thank you, Masters and Johnson. William Masters and Virginia E. Johnson were research partners known for studying human sexuality and co-writing the bestsellers Human Sexual Response and Human Sexual Inadequacy.

Gene: Damn Technology! What is all this crap? It is no way do honest police work. Chris: Sam thinks that this stuff is gonna bring down Richard Nixon. This is reference to Watergate scandals. The Watergate scandals were a series of American political scandals during the presidency of Richard Nixon that resulted his resignation on August 9, 1974. Illegal wiretapping was one of the things that investigations revealed.