Sealab 2021 Season 2 Episode 3

Although Adam Reed is a hack, the snowglobe ending is actually based on the ending to St. Elsewhere, which ended with the setting being a snowglobe in the hands of an autistic child.

Miller looks exactly like the main character of the Hanna-Barbera cartoon "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kids". The screenwriter who appears in the middle of the episode looks exactly like Harvey, another character from this show.

Sparks: "Gundam. He's my mentor in astrotology."
Gundams are giant mobile suits used for space-combat in the Gundam anime series's. Thus the astrotology reference.

Murphy: "You won't believe the dream I just had"
Not only does the title pertain to the film Living in Oblivion, there are many parts taken straight out of the film. Such as the ending of the episode, where Murphy finds out it's just a dream sequence.

Brett Butler: Why do I have to dress as a Martian?
He is dressed as a Jaffa, an alien warrior in the best scifi series on today: Stargate SG-1. The "snake in your belly" line is also taken from the show, since Jaffa are the incubators of a snakelike race of evil beings known as the Goa'uld.

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The title of the episode is a reference to the semi-indie flick 'Living In Oblivion' which is a movie about people making a movie.