Kenneth's mother states "My body's just a flesh vessel for an immortal being whose name, if you heard it, would make you lose your mind." This is yet another reference to the running gag of Kenneth being immortal/very old.
Tracy's storyline in this episode, in which the Republican nominee for vice president is a previously unknown, relatively inexperienced politician from a lightly populated, heavily conservative state beginning with the letter A -and he turns out to strongly resemble a cast member of TGS -is a direct parody of Tina Fey's experience while playing 2008 Republican vice-presidential nominee and former Alaska governor Sarah Palin on Saturday Night Live (1975).