Benny asks his maker, "You know what Socrates said about life unconsidered?" Socrates said the unconsidered life is not worth living.
The episode in which we find out that Castiel's Angel rank is a Seraph.
In Dean's recollection of Purgatory, Benny whistles slightly off-key, 'In the Hall of the Mountain King' from the opera 'Peer Gynt' by Edvard Grieg. This is the same tune whistled by Peter Lorre in the classic film M (1931). This film is loosely based on the murderer also called the Vampire of Dusseldorf.
Sam quotes 'Elmer Fudd (Character)' by saying, "You are a wascally wabbit, Mr. Tran."
Vampirate Benny tells of his love for the beautiful Greek heiress, and Dean asks if Fabio was on the cover of that paperback. In the '80s and '90s Fabio was the male model for the covers of over 480 Harlequin Books romance novels. Benny's tale is on par with Harlequin romances.