Aurora, Washington, the town in which the episode takes place, is a fictional location.

The book Charlie is reading written by Brennan is entitled Bred in the Bone.

The name of the woman who is murdered, Ann Noyes, is a play on the word "annoys."

Dr. Goodman: (to Brennan) Come on, now, you have a partially digested human remains to examine. That should put a smile on your face.

Zack: I once saw a documentary when a bear got in a car and drove away.
Hodgins: That wasn't a documentary. That was a cartoon.

Booth: Does a bear scat in the woods?

Hodgins: Angela, if we were a Peruvian soccer team and crashed in the Andes, who would you rather eat, me or Zack?

Angela: Somebody gnawed on his arm like some kind of...man corn.

Brennan: What if I have to shoot? What part of his body should I hit?
Booth: The part that isn't mine.

Hodgins: Human legs taste like frog legs.
Angela: So I have another reason to never eat frogs.

Booth: Look, you're nuts, okay? We get it. We don't need to hear the rambling psycho speech on why you did it.

Booth: You're a smart ass. You know that?
Brennan: Objectively, I'd say I'm very smart. Although, it has nothing to do with my ass.

Sheriff Scutter: Can I help you?
Brennan: Yeah, thanks. I'm with him.
Sheriff Scutter: Suddenly, I wish I was FBI.

Angela: Did you work all night?
Hodgins: Yes, I shaved the truffle.
Angela: Is that anything like spanking the monkey?

Sheriff Scutter: It's the Japanese rite. They pay a fortune for the bear meat. Think the gallbladders fix up their pecker troubles.

Hodgins: I found boring dust.
Angela: Is there any other kind?

Brennan: Are you suggesting that I take this opportunity to have sex with Booth on a field trip?
Dr. Goodman: Good God, where's Dr. Freud when you need him?

Booth: Just because you say it in that definitive tone, does not mean that it means anything to me.

When Booth and Brennan get into their car, the interior is black leather; however, when they arrive in Washington, the interior is beige. Also, as they leave, the reflection of the camera crew can be seen in Brennan's mirror.

Bones lines up the broken pieces of the arm bone. When she walks away, the bones are out of order.

Angela: What happens in Aurora stays in Aurora.

A play on words of the famous phrase, "What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas."

Sheriff Scutter: You mean a Hannibal Lecter type deal?

Hannibal Lecter is a cannibal made famous in the book The Silence of the Lambs and the subsequent movie that followed of the same name. Hannibal Lecter has since been in the book and movie's sequel and prequel.

Angela: It's like watching the Clash of the horny Titans.

Clash of the Titans is a film about the Greed myth of Perseus and his quest to save the Princess Andromeda. In it Perseus battles Medusa and the Kraken.

Angela: So we're looking for maybe a scarecrow, tin man, or a lion?

This is a reference to the 1939 Oscar nominated film, The Wizard of Oz. In the film Dorothy and her dog, Toto, are blown away to Oz and meet up with the scarecrow, tin man, and lion in an attempt to defeat the Wicked Witch and get back to Kansas.

Sheriff Scutter: ...do their own version of the Blair Witch Project.

The Blair Witch Project was a film about 3 student film makers that disappear in the woods of Maryland while attempting to find the Blair Witch. One year later, their footage was found in the woods and compiled into a movie.

Angela: And you're going to zoom him.
Hodgins: Like the Indy 500 baby.

The Indianapolis 500 is an annual car race held over Memorial Day at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway, Indiana.

Hodgins: If we were a Peruvian soccer team and crashed in the Andes, who would you rather eat, me or Zack?

Hodgins is referencing the Uruguayan rugby team that crashed in the Andes Mountains and were driven to cannibalism in order to survive.