The house used for the wake is the same used as Harrison Wells' home on The Flash (2014), also a CW show.
Lowell (Bradley James) gives Liv (Rose McIver) a bottle of jolokia based hot sauce, but jolokia, aka ghost pepper, was declared the hottest pepper in 2007, with a rating of 1,000,000 Scoville units. In India, jolokia smoke bombs are used as mad elephant deterrents. By 2013 jolokia was the 5th hottest pepper, California Reaper topping at 1,560,000 Scoville units.
When Clive (Malcolm Goodwin) asks a kid at the skate park what happened to the homeless man who used to frequent there, the kid mentions that the homeless man would always shout, "Are we having fun yet?!" This is the catchphrase of Adam Scott's character in Party Down (2009), another Rob Thomas show that guest star Ryan Hansen was a regular cast member of.