How I Met Your Mother: Purple Giraffe / Season: 1 / Episode: 2 (2005)

In describing the party, Marshall says, "Everybody Wang-ed. Everybody Chung-ed," in reference to Wang Chung's "Everybody Have Fun Tonight".

An instrumental version of this song is played.

When describing how Barney's night went with the girl from the party, he says 'The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire' which is a line from Rock Master Scott & the Dynamic Three's song "The Roof Is on Fire".

Marshall calls Ted "Gatsby" at one point, in reference to the novel The Great Gatsby, in which Jay Gatsby throws successive parties in the hopes that the woman he loves, Daisy Buchanan, might attend. At one point in the party, the lamp next to the couch glows green, which is one of the most popular metaphors in The Great Gatsby.