The list of possible test subjects on the blackboard includes the following people: Abraham Lincoln, Harriet Tubman, Norman Borlaug, Marie Curie, Florence Nightingale, Susan B. Anthony, Chiune Sugihara, Nelson Mandela, Toyohiko Kagawa, Siddhartha Gautama, Rene Descartes, Oskar Schindler, Anna Maria van Schurman, Derek Parfit, Mr. Rogers, Erasmus, Rosa Parks, Ida B. Wells, Alexander Fleming, Eleanor Roosevelt, Frederick Douglass, Louis Pasteur, and Dr. B.R. Ambedkar. In the upper right corner are Jason's suggestions, including "Gleek from da Super Friends".
When Chidi offers to learn the guitar, Eleanor says she prefers drummers. Kristen Bell's husband Dax Shepard plays the drums.
Chidi expresses amazement that Jason made a literary reference to "Romeo and Juliet", but the book has long been required reading for every schoolchild in the United States, usually in the ninth grade. The show has established that Jason attended at least some high school; in season 2, episode 7, he tells Tahani, "I went to Lynyrd Skynyrd High School in northeast Jacksonville, which was really just a bunch of tugboats tied together."