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** The glowing bunnies are a nod to the original hound, which was {{spoiler|painted with phosphorus to appear supernatural}}.
** The Grimpen Minefield is, of course, wordplay on the Grimpen Mire. {{spoiler|The villains in both stories die trying to flee through it.}}
** {{spoiler|The hallucinogenic fear gas}} is reminiscent of "The Devil's Foot," as is {{spoiler|Sherlock's experiment with it}}, although in this case the results are [[What the Hell, Hero?|merely emotionally traumatizing]] rather than life-threatening.
*** {{spoiler|Sherlock's experiment on Watson}} also recalls a remark of Stamford's in "A Study in Scarlet" that he could imagine Holmes {{spoiler|"giving a friend a little pinch of the latest vegetable alkaloid, not out of malevolence, you understand, but simply out of a spirit of inquiry..."}}.
** Henry Knight's name is a play on "Sir Henry" from ''The Hound of the Baskervilles''. Many of the other names are taken more or less straight from the original - including the surname of the original villain. Interestingly, {{spoiler|the character with the original villain's name turns out to be a [[Red Herring]] who eventually helps Sherlock and John to solve the case, but the real villain of this story did actually have similar personality traits to the original and also dies in a very similar way.}}
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