Members of a teen gang are suspects in a recent rash of stranglings.
Beginning of the episode
Opening host segment
Invention exchange
Short: Is This Love?
A reference to Michael Douglas' performance as Detective Nick Curran in the steamy thriller Basic Instinct.
A reference to the 1980s television show "Bosom Buddies," where two men (played by Hanks and Scolari) disguise themselves as women to live in an apartment that they can afford.
Reference to a line spoken in Eegah! (Episode 506)
First host segment
Movie begins
Richard Speck - Killed eight student nurses one night in July of 1966. He died in prison in 1991.
A reference to the Biblical story of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. As Lot and his family flee their home, his wife turns to look back and becomes a pillar of salt. (Genesis 19, verse 26)
Second Host Segment
Second Movie Segment
Scared Straight - A documentary in which several juvenile delinquents were taken to an actual prison to be screamed at, and intimidated by, actual convicts, in an attempt to make the delinquents end their criminal ways.
The Watchtower - a magazine published by the Jehovah's Witnesses, who are known to go door to door to people houses in the hopes of converting them to their religion.
Third Host Segment
Third Movie Segment
A variation on the tag line from Eat My Dust! (1976), "Ron Howard pops the clutch and tells the world to "Eat My Dust!"
Reference to the short, Mr. B Natural, from episode #319 - War of the Colossal Beast.
A reference to a line spoken by the infamous Torgo, spoken in Episode 424, Manos: The Hands of Fate.
A reference to one of the actors in the movie, Eegah! from Episode 506. The character dancing in this scene dances similarly to Arch Hall Jr's character in the final scene of Eegah.
Final Host Segment