When Pete's car gets run off the road, it flies in the air in slow motion. John Schenider (Jonathan Kent) played Bo Duke on Dukes of Hazzard which made that same car effect happen on a regular basis.
The book which is being read by Lionel Luthor at the beginning is titled 'Beyond Good and Evil' written by famous German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. It was Nietzsche who first proposed the term 'Superman' as a goal which humanity should set itself.
Clark uses the following abilities in this episode: super strength, super speed, X-ray vision, and telescopic vision.
Jonathan Kent mentions both the Wild Coyote (as do many others) and Highway 91. The Wild Coyote is an actual bar in Vancouver, and Highway 91 does in fact exist as well (and would likely be the route that Jonathan would take to get from the Wild Coyote to the Kent Farm).