Gloria asks Jay if "they" still use the electric chair. California has never used the electric chair, and, since 1996, the state's only execution method is lethal injection. There have been multiple efforts to repeal the death penalty in California with the movement gaining political traction in the 2010s by way of progressive district attorneys being elected and, unsuccessfully, by way of referendums.
Kevin Daniels also plays a gay character in the show Sirens (2014-2015).
Maile Flanagan who plays the woman who gives Gloria her citizenship test and Jesse Tyler Ferguson were both in the TV show The Class. Jesse Tyler Ferguson playing a main character Richie Velch and Maile Ferguson plays the step daughter of a woman Richie went to school with.