This marks the first unbleeped use of "shit" when Steve Holt makes a joke about the "shitty parents club."
Similar to the Bluths' confusion over the Spanish word for "brother" years ago, here they have a similar problem with the word "primo" ("cousin") .
G.O.B. says "Hello, darkness," but, ironically, the background music is "I Started a Joke" by The Bee Gees, rather than Simon & Garfunkel's "Sound of Silence."
A TV airing El Amor Prohibido, where Marta starred in Key Decisions (2003) is seen in the background of the first scene in the apartment where George-Michael (and the UC Irvine students reside in Mexico.
The Wetzels Pretzels uniforms basically mirror the Banana Stand's uniform.