When trying to convince U.E.B members to have Bill be the leader Lois used JFKs inauguration speech about a torch being passed to a new generation. Bill Paxton had a connection to JFK. He was in Dallas with his father in the crowd when JFK was assassinated. There is a picture of him as an 8 year old on the shoulders of his dad in the Texas Book Depository.
Amanda Seyfried (Sarah Henrickson) and Tina Majorino (Heather Tuttle) also appeared together on Veronica Mars (2004).