* The title is a play on the song "Ice Ice Baby" by Vanilla Ice.
* Roger's line when he is posing as Professor Baxter, "Electric word, life. It means forever and that's a mighty long time," is the spoken prelude to Prince's song "Let's Go Crazy" from the album Purple Rain.
* When Roger tries to put Hayley in detention, she corrects him by saying "There's no detention in college." Roger then "takes" 50 points from Gryffindor, a reference to the Harry Potter book series.
* Ethan is portrayed, both in physical appearance and dressing, like Neil Perry in Dead Poets Society.
* Maria is a parody of Sesame Street's Maria who first joined the cast in 1971.
* The anime characters named Kichiro and Mojiro who guide Stan through the process are based on the mascots from the 2005 Aichi World Fair.
* The final lines from Francine are an allusion to a scene in the film adaptation of Stephen King's The Shining.