When the robot cat sheds its fur, it says "meow" like Arnold Schwarzenegger, a nod to The Terminator.
The police captain's name is Flemming, a reference to the writer of the James Bond novels, Ian Fleming.
This movie contains nods to Lethal Weapon (1987), Mission: Impossible (1966), The Silence of the Lambs (1991), Batman (1989), and the Bond films. Nods to the Bond movies include Goldfinger (1964), Moonraker (1979), and From Russia with Love (1963).
The name "Tab Lazenby" is a nod to actor George Lazenby, who played James Bond in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) (and is voiced by Sir Roger Moore, who played Bond in seven movies, starting with Live and Let Die (1973)).