Dan mentions the song "Messin' With the Kid" by Baby Huey and the Babysitters. This song was also covered by the Blues Brothers on their album "Briefcase Full of Blues." John Goodman, who plays Dan Conner, was in the movie Blues Brothers 2000 (1998).
Katey Sagal makes an appearance in this episode. It's known that Roseanne Barr had been offered Sagal's famous role of 'Peg Bundy' on Married... with Children (1987) back in 1986, and she turned it down.
Katey Sagal and Emma Kenney previously worked together on the tv series Shameless
Katey Sagal had previously satirized Roseanne Barr and Roseanne (1988) in Two and a Half Deaths (2008), also written by Chuck Lorre.