The Verbansky Corp building is the Central Los Angeles Public High School for the Visual and Performing Arts.
Following on with the show's history of utilising spies and characters from other movies and shows, Justin Hartley, who plays Wesley, was the original Green Arrow from Smallville (2001).
When Big Mike asks Awesome (Ryan McPartlin) to be in a Buy More commercial Awesome mentions that he did some modeling for Abercrombie & Fitch back in college. Ryan was an A&F model in real life.
The Matrix (1999) (including its sequels, The Matrix Reloaded (2003) and The Matrix Revolutions (2003)) has been mentioned and/or parodied several times throughout the show. Carrie-Anne Moss (Gertrude Verbanski) played the character of Trinity in those movies.
Yvonne Strahovski, Adam Baldwin, and Carrie-Anne Moss also provided voice work in Mass Effect 2 (2010).