When Chris visits Ben because he's worried Ben is depressed, Ben is wearing a t-shirt for the band Letters to Cleo. Mark Rivers, the show's music supervisor and drummer in the band Mouse Rat, was a real life member of Letters to Cleo.
Ron, Tom, Andy, and April are arrested in front of the same building used for the exterior of Paddy's Pub in It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (2005).
Though tenth-billed Retta can be glimpsed in two early scenes, she has no lines in this episode. Her character of Donna Meagle originally had a small subplot in which she had to look after the Parks and Recreation department alone; the subplot was completely excised from the final cut.