In the opening scene, Ruth looks at a cookie jar of a rabbit before deciding on a goat. In Coffee, Black (2017), Ben talks about his future of owning goats, similar to Lenny in "Of Mice & Men" where he imagines his future of owning rabbits.
The episode title is a line from Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poem 'Locksley Hall,' however was also the title of Colum McCann's 2009 novel.