Hank Hooper mentions having to deal with "nut jobs" in the Screen Actors Guild. The actor playing Hooper, Ken Howard, was the president of the Screen Actors Guild at the time.
Jenna, Tracy and Kenneth discuss where they were five years ago and where they think they will be in five years, prompting a facetious flash-forward to a graveyard with each character's birth and death dates on his/her respective tombstone. While it is obscured by a bush, Kenneth's birth year is listed as 1781.
Tom Hanks is singing Billy Joel's "My Life", which was the theme song to his breakout TV series Bosom Buddies (1980).
Near the end of the episode, Jack accidentally shoots and kills Tom (played by Michael Keaton). 10 years later, Alex Baldwin would accidentally shoot and kill someone in real life during the filming of the movie Rust.