The stock footage shot of the running buffalo herd interspersed with footage from the music video shoot is a parody of a scene from Glen or Glenda (1953), directed by Edward D. Wood Jr., infamously considered one of the worst movies ever made. The original scene featured similar footage of buffalo running interspersed with actor Bela Lugosi exclaiming "pull the string!"
The city that Mordecai and Rigby live in is just called "City", considering the fact that the college Eileen goes to is called City College and the high school Rigby tried to get his high school diploma is called City High School.