The lady who brings Holden (Jonathan Groff) his coffee near the start is named for David Fincher's long time assistant, and now producer, Andrea McKee.
Debbie (Hannah Gross) owns the same kind of car that serial killer Ted Bundy did - a beige Volkswagen Beetle.
The main characters have several connections with cars (the vehicle or the band): Holden and Ford are car brands, Wendy "Carr", Detective Ocasek (surname of lead singer of the The Cars, and Mit-"Ford".
Although it is the pilot episode, it is also the lowest rated episode of the series.
It's 1977. Holden takes his girlfriend Debbie to a movie theater. The movie is "Dog Day Afternoon" with Al Pacino which came on December 25th, 1975.