 Lister references the 1967 film "The Dirty Dozen" when he sees what Rimmer's doing with the good wax-droids.During his abuse of the troops, Arnold Rimmer quotes Gunnery Sergeant Hartman from "Full Metal Jacket".One of the people in "Villain World" is James Last, who recorded the version of "Copacabana" that was used on the first transmission of the episode "Terrorform".