* The bet to start the mower 10 times or have his leg cut off references the 1953 Roald Dahl short story Man from the South, later used in the Quentin Tarantino story from Four Rooms, "The Man from Hollywood".
* At one point, Roger makes a reference to seeing how purple a guy's majesty will get. When a guy asks what Roger is talking about he says its from a song. The song he is referring to is "America the Beautiful".