The "elevator music" that plays when Norman meets Julian during dinner is Franz Schubert's Serenade.
Nestor Carbonell and Jaime Ray Newman went on to be a couple on Midnight, Texas.
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The furnace/safe looking object where Alex hides his money down in the basement in Norma's house is nearly identical in appearance to the safe in the Bates Motel's office in the 1960s film "Psycho", of which the show is based on.