The safe Jason hides in during his attempted robbery is from the "Swanson Safe Company", a reference to Ron Swanson from Parks and Recreation (2009), another Mike Schur show. Nick Offerman, who plays Ron Swanson, also is the voice saying "Fremulon" after the credits.
Fake Eleanor (Kristen Bell) comments that being Rapunzel would be the dream. Kristen Bell auditioned for Rapunzel for Disney's Tangled (2010).
Tahani (played by Jameela Jamil, who is very tall) says to Chidi, "Right now, I'm just a girl, towering over a boy, asking him to admit he loves me". This comically paraphrases a line from the movie Notting Hill (1999), in which Anna Scott (Julia Roberts) says to William Thacker (Hugh Grant), "...I'm just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her".
This episode attracted 3.53 million viewers when it first aired.