First of ten appearances of Jean Ralphio's sister, Mona Lisa Saperstein.
During the city hearing to give Pawnee Video Dome Historic Landmark status, one of the crackpot speakers who come to protest it identifies himself as "Wilson Gromling of the Liberty or Die Party." Gromling says, "These government handouts are deplorable. You're just handing out blank checks! I was on food stamps; I was on welfare; nobody helped me!" This is a paraphrase of something that actor (and political conservative) Craig T. Nelson said on May 28, 2009 on FOX News program Glenn Beck (2009). Nelson was widely ridiculed afterward for his hypocrisy, evidenced by the contradiction inherent in saying that he had taken advantage of government assistance programs like food stamps and welfare when he needed them but that those sorts of government assistance programs are wrong and that he never received any help.
Had Leslie allowed Dennis to play Shoah (1985) instead of Paths of Glory (1957), the attendants would've gone from a 90 minute movie to the 566 minute long documentary about victims of the Holocaust.
Dennis states that his store doesn't carry cartoons. However, you can clearly see The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (2004) in the background in a couple shots.
Ron Swanson, played by Nick Offerman mentions intellectual conversations happening at Barrett's Hardware. There are two Barrett's Hardware locations near Minooka, IL (in Joliet and Lockport), where Offerman grew up.