Joss Whedon, who plays the obnoxious Lariat Rental car manager, Douglas, is better known as a screenwriter (Toy Story (1995); Alien: Resurrection (1997)) and the creator of cult-hit TV shows such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997), Angel (1999), and Firefly (2002) than as an actor. Before appearing on the show, Whedon expressed his admiration of it in pieces written for whedonesque.com and an October 2005 issue of Entertainment Weekly magazine.
The car rental agency in this episode is called "Lariat." While there is no real rental car business named Lariat, it is the name used for the fictional chain from which Agents Mulder and Scully rented nearly all of their cars on The X-Files (1993).
Kim Stolz (Stacy) won her role of the female assistant at the Lariat Rental Car, as a weekly challenge winner on America's Next Top Model (2003) (Cycle 5).
In this episode we see both Logan (Jason Dohring) & Duncan (Teddy Dunn) wear the same shirt. This shirt is again seen in episode 3.1, Welcome Wagon (2006), when Veronica (Kristen Bell) gives it to Piz (Christopher Lowell) to wear.