First episode where the Dean walks into the study room with the group.
Jeff tries to talk Troy into playing for Greendale's football team. Joel McHale was a walk-on player at the University of Washington football team in 1992. His position was tight-end.
At one point in the episode, Troy tells Jeff to "take a pottery class or something". In Beginner Pottery (2010), Jeff does take a pottery class.
Alison Brie (Annie) says to Joel Mchale (Jeff), " you made me, an 18 year old girl, cry in front of people!" Brie was noticeable much older than that at the time of this episode being in fact 27 years old, 9 years older than her character.
At the end of the episode, when Troy and Abed are doing the announcements, Troy introduces himself as "The Disco Spider". In the rap Troy and Abed do at the end of the episode "Spanish 101", one of Troy's lines is "Mi amo T-Bone, la araña discoteca" which is Spanish for "My name is T-Bone, the disco spider."