When Krazy-8 (Max Arciniega) walks into the restaurant at the beginning he can be seen wearing a polo shirt with a Tampico logo. In Breaking Bad (2008) Season 1 (Breaking Bad: ...And the Bag's in the River (2008)), Krazy-8 tells Walt (Bryan Cranston) he works for his father's furniture company, Tampico.
The second reference to his Breaking Bad (2008) character, Saul Goodman. The first was in the episode Better Call Saul: Marco (2015).
The phone number seen in the "Saul Goodman Productions" commercial, 505-842-5662, is a working number. If called (NOTE: Long distance charges may apply), a recorded message from "Saul" plays inviting the caller to leave a message.
When Jimmy tells his student filmmakers, particularly Makeup Girl, he needs to "Karloff this thing" as he reaches into her bag, he's referring to legendary actor Boris Karloff, who, with makeup, was transformed into The Monster in the James Whale classic 'Frankenstein'.
When visiting Chuck (Michael McKean), Howard (Patrick Fabian) has a bottle of alcohol marked 1966 and Howard tells Chuck that it is thirty-five years old, which led to some confusion with fans over the time period of the episode. However, the thirty-five years of ageing refer to the period between production and bottling, since ageing stops at that point, meaning that the alcohol was bottled either in 2001 or 2002, with it being consumed in 2003, when the episode is set.
The phone number for massages shown in this episode is an actual health spa in Albuquerque New Mexico
Jimmy states that, "The guy at the station said he's never seen so many star wipes in a row." Number of star wipes in the Saul Goodman ad: Nine.
When Jimmy tells the Music Store Brothers he'll make them look like James Garner and Mariette Hartley, he's referring to the Polaroid commercials the duo made in the seventies and eighties.
When Kim and Jimmy celebrate his temporary disbarment, he says he showed be awarded sainthood. Kim answers "St. Jimmy has a nice ring to it." The episode is set in 2003, one year before the punk rock band Green Day published their famous American Idiot album, containing a song named "St. Jimmy".
Featured Music: "Colas De La Libra De Perros" by Francisco Sarmiento "Con Que Frecuencia" by Francisco Sarmiento "Methadone" by Chuy Flores
Fitting that, being a series full of movie references, a lot of them from the 1970's and 1980's, an actor from that era is the director of this episode: Keith Gordon from Jaws 2, Dressed to Kill, Christine and Back To School. After retiring from acting, Gordon became a director of indie films and television.
