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  • The title references the film and novel The Talented Mr. Ripley.
  • Matt Weitzman credits the 1978 horror film Magic as the inspiration for this episode.[1]
  • Hayley suggests "Don't you know we're local?" as a slogan, punning on the line "Don't you know I'm loco?" from Cypress Hill's "Insane in the Brain".
  • The person dressed as a clown shooing the Morse Code demonstration offstage with a broom is based on Howard "Sandman" Sims' Executioner, his similarly dressed character who would escort failed acts off the stage at Amateur Night at the Apollo Theater.

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