Chris is shown on a tape emulating a famous scene by Buffalo Bill in The Silence of the Lambs (1991). Seth Green based the voice of Chris on Ted Levine's, who originally played Buffalo Bill.
This episode tells us that Kevin Swanson, the oldest son of Joe and Bonnie, died in Iraq.
When Connie asks Chris if he would rather go see a movie, Chris suggests they go see the new Paul Sorvino, Chazz Palminteri movie "Distracting Trumpet". The song played during the cutaway is "Feels so good" by Chuck Mangione who actually plays the flugelhorn. Not a trumpet.
The plotline of a popular girl making over an unpopular boy, dating him, and him dumping her is from Can't Buy Me Love (1987).
The title is based on the family of drugs called steroids that is used medically to rebuild body tissue and is illegally used by athletics to increase muscle tissue, but has adverse mental and physical consequences that include dependence and aggression.