A scene of Katherine and Adam leaving the party, was cut for time.
The title of the episode, "The Game", comes from a song of the same name in the Stephen Sondheim 2003 musical, 'Road Show' (previously titled Bounce, Wise Guys, and Gold!).
Tom says: "They still talk about the night that you guessed 'The Americanization of Emily' in 15 seconds". The Americanization of Emily, is a 1964 American black-and-white, black comedy, anti-war film. 'Emily' was played by Dame Julie Andrews. The film was released the same year she starred in 'Mary Poppins'.
Lynette and her kids are watching "SpongeBob SquarePants" (1999).
Stella says Lynette was "Yente in 'Fiddler on the Roof", in Junior year. Fiddler on the Roof is a 1964 Broadway musical, set in the Pale of Settlement of Imperial Russia in or around 1905. Yente, is the gossipy village matchmaker.