There are blueprints hung on a wall in the background of the workshop. The plans are actually for the automatic laser surgery prop used in the "New You" sequence in Logan's Run (1976).
Ponch finds out that his apartment building is going condo and that his apartment will cost him $189,000.
This is the first episode where Ponch and Steve appeared in together.
Regarding the Alan Silvestri music composition. Specific notes from the later produced "Back to the Future" main theme score can clearly be heard during the van heist scenes. Alan Silvestri was also the composer of the Back to the Future trilogy.