(episode 1.19), Veronica (Kristen Bell) looks at the kidnapped dogs and reads their names off as she goes along. Two of the kidnapped dogs, the ones named Shakes and Lola, are Kristen Bell's real-life dogs. Those are their actual names.
In the episode, Veronica (Kristen Bell) says to Mandy (Claire Titelman) that "lost dogs aren't really my speciality". In real life, Kristen Bell is known for taking care of stray dogs and helping them find their owners.
In the first scene with Aaron (Harry Hamlin), Trina (Alyson Hannigan) and Logan (Jason Dohring), Aaron is reading, "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse.
Jeffrey Vincent Parise (Dylan Goran) also appeared in an iZombie (2015) episode, Brother, Can You Spare a Brain? (2015) (Artie Fiss), a Party Down (2009) episode, Sin Say Shun Awards Afterparty (2009) (Coke guy) as well as Cupid (1998). Rob Thomas created Cupid, Party Down and iZombie, as well as Veronica Mars.