At one point Elliot, played by Conrad Brooks, tells the Security Guard about watching the movie Flying Saucers over Hollywood. The plot of the movie he describes matches the Ed Wood Jr cult classic Plan 9 From Outer Space (1957). A newspaper headline in Plan 9 at one point reads "Saucers Seen Over Hollywood." Brooks was also one of the police officers in Plan 9. Brooks was then the Bartender in Tim Burton's Ed Wood in 1994.