Lorelai says "Jack Nicholson and Angelina Jolie just kicked us out with parting gifts." She's referencing the actors in relation to their roles as mental institution patients (Nicholson in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and Jolie in "Girl, Interrupted").
Lane's band plays the song "Time Bomb" by Rancid.
The video game Zach and Brian are playing at the band meeting is Soulcalibur II.
When Lane first sees Kyon she's wearing a tie with a t-shirt, the style Avril Lavigne popularized with the release of her first CD.
The title of Asher's book is "Jaglon".