As the Middleman pauses outside the theater, you can see movie posters screen right. One of them "stars" Brett Born, a production controller on the show.

Lacey: It’s just, I mean, God knows I’ve spilled a lot of fake blood on your stuff, but what the hell is this. It almost looks alive.
Wendy: Don’t worry, it’s dead. Any movement is just reflex action.
Lacey: You mean it was alive?
Wendy: A bug. I stepped on a bug.
Lacey: With both my boots?!?

The Middleman: Let this be a lesson to you. The next time we trap a rampaging pig-insect hybrid from another galaxy that accidentally gets loose in custody, you should shoot after it gets out of the car.
Wendy: Right. Next time I’ll find a more convenient place to be attacked.

The Middleman: We’re agents Boetticher and Kennedy from American Shrimp and Crab Amalgamed Processors. Law enfocement branch.
Cecil Rogers: ASCAP?
The Middleman: We avoid using the acronym for copyright reasons.
Wendy: But, uh, whenever unexpected shrimp or crab appear in the context of a homicide, we’re not far behind.

Ida: Time to quit your grinning and drop your linen, people.

Johnny John: Look, I've got a beautiful woman in here, who is hot, willing, and able, who finds me devastating in my raw, feral power. Did I mention she was hot? Do you have any idea how rare that is for me?
Wendy: Yes I do.

Roxy Wasserman: (to the Middleman) You are as ignorant as your jacket is tacky.

(the Middlewatch beeps)
Lacey: Do you ever take that thing off?
The Middleman: No.
Lacey: Never?
The Middleman: It’s waterproof, shockproof, and grafted to my skin.

Wendy: One coffee and milk, hold the coffee for you, and one coffee and milk for me, hold the milk for me.

The Middleman: This is good. No one’s drowned yet.
Wendy: And no one’s playing the tuba, which is just as good.

Lacey: So is it just strictly business tonight between you and sexy boss-man.
Wendy: I refuse to answer until you stop calling him that.
Lacey: So, is it strictly business between you and pillow-lips?

Lacey: Dub-Dub, first rule of achieving a happy makeover: never argue with the person holding the curling iron.

The Middleman: Not tonight, I’m on armed goon tuba duty, you’re on lose the roomie detail.

The Middleman: Sensei Ping. Twisted Stones. On three.
Wendy: One, two three.
(the Middleman takes down the bad guys)
Wendy: I forget. What’s my part in Twisted Stones?
The Middleman: The counting.

The Middleman: There’s still time, Rogers. If you help us, I’ll make sure your tuba is safe for all eternity. You have my word.
Cecil Rogers: Sorry, I don’t trust good-looking, heroic people.
Wendy: You have eternal life and this is what you choose to do with it?
Cecil Rogers: Did I mention how good the dating’s been?

Wendy: She’s my roommate and my best friend and you’re my boss. How does that make anything easier? Why don’t you just date my mom while you’re at it?
The Middleman: Is she nice?
Wendy: Ahhh!
The Middleman: Just kidding. It was a joke to relieve the tension.

The Titanic

The episode contains numerous references to the RMS Titanic:

* Erica Ambler and Ray Ward Baker refer to the writers of the movie A Night to Remember (1958).
* The alias of Harland and Wolff refer to the name of the company that built the ship.
* The Middleman saying "Sweet Molly Brown!" refers to the American socialite formed for her presence on the Titanic.
* Lacey telling Noser to "get the axe" refers to a scene when Rose frees Jack with an axe in Titanic (1997)
* The high school named is Edward J. Smith, referring to the captain of the Titanic. The school team name is the Icebergs, referring to the reason the Titanic sank.

Ride Lonesome (1959) stars Randolph Scott, Lee Van Cleef, Pernell Roberts, James Best, and James Coburn. Scott's character delivers a murderer to justice and has to recruit two outlaws to help him fight off hostile Indians.