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* The spaceship jumping over Springfield Gorge is a parody of Homer skateboarding over the gorge in the Simpsons episode "Bart the Daredevil".
* One of the Springfield police car license plates is A113, an old animation in-joke used in several other animated movies and T.V. shows.http://www.eonline.com/news/537548/the-story-behind-the-mysterious-number-that-appears-in-almost-every-pixar-film
* Fred Flintstone's favorite beer is Budrock, a parody of both Budweiser and the convention of naming things with variations of stone and rocks in The Flintstones.
* Chris says "Alright, Alright, Alright" while doing an impersonation of Matthew McConaughey, a reference to his catchphrase in the film Dazed and Confused.