This episode's commercial is for Lagos brand paper towels. The city of Lagos, Nigeria, is where Wanda accidentally blew up a building at the beginning of Captain America: Civil War (2016).
Sparky the dog comes from the "Visions" comic that inspired the show.
However, in the comics it was an android dog, while in this episode it is a normal dog.
However, in the comics it was an android dog, while in this episode it is a normal dog.
The sudden growth of the twin sons, Tommy and Billy, is a reference to how sitcoms often portrayed infants growing up at an unrealistic rate. A notable example would be from Growing Pains (1985), which featured an infant (Chrissy Seaver) who in the course of just two seasons was old enough to attend school.
The theme song for this episode ("Making It Up As We Go Along") is a thematic, vocal, and instrumental homage to "Believe It Or Not," the theme song from The Greatest American Hero (1981), a 1981 comedy TV series about an ordinary man struggling to control superpowers he was unexpectedly granted by powerful extraterrestrials.
References to Full House (1987) in the opening theme: when the family is running towards the camera, and when they sit on the grass to have a picnic lunch. Elizabeth Olsen's sisters, Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Olsen, starred in that show as Michelle Tanner. Kat Dennings was born the same day as the Olsen twins (June 13, 1986).