Explaining how his cameo happened, Walton Goggins said that he read an interview where creator Kurt Sutter explained why Michael Chiklis and Goggins hadn't guest starred on the show like many actors from The Shield (2002). Sutter explanation was that their characters were too associated with the actors and audience would think about Vic and Shane seeing Chiklis and Goggins. Goggis then called Sutter and, to prove him wrong, he suggested playing a transgender on Sons of Anarchy. Walton Goggins was shooting Django Unchained (2012) when he got a call from Kurt Sutter about the transgender role of Venus Van Dam for Season 5.
When Allen Biacone bit Tigg on the butt Tigg made the comment about why does this always happen to him. This is a reference to the fourth episode of the first season Patch Over (2008) when he got bit on the butt by the doberman while stealing the truck with Juice.
Walton Goggins plays the character Venus Van Dam. "Venus Van Dam" is a play on the undercover name "Cletus Van Damme" used by Shane Vendrell, the character Goggins portrayed on The Shield
Rockmond Dunbar and Marshall Allman were main cast members on the first two seasons of Prison Break (2005). Furthermore, Dunbar, Allman, and Kim Coates previously starred on the same episode of that show titled Dead Fall (2006).