The title is based on the Loud Family that were chronicled in an early version of reality TV in the series An American Family (1973), an American PBS television documentary shot in 1971.
After the family watches Bubba's movie on television, Vint tells Mama not to be so hard on herself, as she's not that bad of a mother. Mama responds, "I know that you pea-brain. Cecil B. De-moron put words in my mouth." This is an allusion to the famous film director Cecil B. DeMille
Movie directors referenced in this episode: Ron Howard, Ingmar Bergman, Alfred Hitchcock, Steven Spielberg, Cecil B. DeMille