For the movie:
- Actor Allusion:
- Mavis eats a Famous Bowl.
- Mavis Gary drives the same car Stella Bridger drove.
- Mavis and Matt talk about a popular book series, to which Matt asks if it has vampires. Elizabeth Reaser had starred in Twilight.
- Matt owns a Nite Owl doll. Patrick Wilson had played Nite Owl II in Watchmen.
- California Doubling: Although set in Minnesota, the majority of scenes were shot in New York.
- The Danza: Kind of. Elizabeth Reaser as Beth Slade.
- Production Posse: Patton Oswalt had been a regular on Diablo Cody's TV series United States of Tara. Jason Reitman had likewise directed Juno - Diablo Cody's Breakthrough Hit.