During the scene where Rick is watching TV and ordering Unity to adjust the story, the show he is watching is Community, another of Dan Harmon's creations. When you see the characters they all look like the actual characters of the show, and the story Rick is creating are real plots and happenings on the show Community.
Beta-7, has a striking resemblance to the "Star Trek: The Next Generation"(1987) villains The Borg.
The song at the end of the episode is "Do You Feel It?" by Chaos Chaos.
When Beta 7 points & screams this is exactly what the aliens do in the film Invasion Of The Bodysnatchers.
This episode's title is a reference to the act of auto-erotic asphyxiation, or the act of restricting one's oxygen intake during sexual acts to try to derive more pleasure from those acts. Auto-erotic asphyxiation is seen as a very kinky, somewhat sexually deviant, act, as are many of Rick's desires with Unity - such as paragliding with a pair of crotchless pants into a football stadium full of redheads and "anyone who even slightly resembles" his father, chanting "go, son, go!" as he does it; or Rick's frank line of questioning Unity about assimilating a giraffe.