This is the first episode when an alternative version of the theme music is heard. During the end credits, Jason Suecof and Alex Rüdinger perform a rock version.
The memory where a female scientist receives 'alien instructions' is a spoof of Contact (1997) and the scientist is a copy of Jodie Foster's character, Dr Ellie Arroway.
Mr. Lunas's license plate reads SAT F1V3 (SAT FIVE). The Saturn V (Saturn Five) was the rocket that sent astronauts to the moon.
The concept of a "clip show made up of clips you never saw" has been done by Community (2009), a show also created by Dan Harmon in Paradigms of Human Memory (2011) and Curriculum Unavailable (2012).