*The title parodies film titles with Escape from... with locales such as New York, Sobibor, Alcatraz or Los Angeles completing the title.
* When Chet Butler clinks the empty bottles on his fingers and says "Stoolbend, come out and play", he quotes a pivotal scene from the film The Warriors.
* Cleveland says to Chet, "Welcome to the bridge on the river die!", a parody of the title of the film The Bridge on the River Kwai.
*Cleveland Jr. suggests to Roberta they go kill a horse in the principal's office, parodying a gag from National Lampoon's Animal House.