The mortuary where the dead roommate's ashes were taken was called "Steadlawn Mortuary" an anagram of "Wasteland" - gallows humor since that was the last filmed episode and everyone on the team knew the show was about to be axed.
The working title of the show was "wasteLAnd", which was suppose to take place in Los Angles (hence the capital letters) but the when it was rewritten, the story setting was changed to New York instead.