A pinball machine called the "See Me, Feel Me Pinball Machine" can be found and bought, with the description ending with "By who? By Tommi Co, of course!". This is a reference to the song "See Me, Feel Me" from The Who's album Tommy.

In the expansion pack "The Sims: House Party", if you throw a cool enough party, Drew Carey will arrive in a limo to congratulate you and hang out.

Drew Carey was a fan of the Sims and also parodied them in an episode of "The Drew Carey Show".

When running The Sims' autoplay, clicking on the Maxis symbol will lead you to a cartoon image of the game's creator, Will Wright, riding on a scooter with Sims all around him.

It has been said that Will Wright was partly inspired to create the Sims after experiencing a house fire that forced him to start reconsidering how he would start to build his life up again, and what his real "needs" actually were.