When Watty and Starlene dash out of a used television store, they run past a white wall, painted with the words, "Free Tex Watson". This is an homage to John Waters. This slogan appeared spray-painted on a wall behind Divine as he prances through Baltimore's ghetto streets in Waters' Pink Flamingos (1972).
Vergil Cheatham says, "I'm hip about time." This is one of Peter Fonda's few lines in Easy Rider (1969).
In the dining room scene with Starlene's parents, Peter Fonda's motorcycle's gas tank (American Flag design), from Easy Rider (1969) has been made into a lamp, and is on a table behind Watty and Starlene.
Rory Cochrane and Renée Zellweger appeared in Dazed and Confused (1993), The Low Life (1995), and Empire Records (1995).