Gus Kenworthy's character gets upset when the other counselors are trash-talking Olympic athletes. Gus competed in the 2014 and 2018 Winter Olympics for slope style, half pipe and big air.
Mr. Jingles is the third serial killer that John Carol Lynch has played on the show. The first two being Twisty the Clown (Season 4) and John Wayne Gacy (Season 5).
The name of the character Jonas Shevoore (Lou Taylor Pucci) is an anagram of Jason Voorhees, the iconic killer from the Friday the 13th movie series.
First season since "Murder House" to not feature Sarah Paulson in the main title sequence and the first ever to not feature Evan Peters.
The second season of Scream Queens, a comedic slasher series created by Ryan Murphy and starring Emma Roberts and Billie Lourd, was initially going to take place at a summer camp. When another summer camp horror series named Dead of Summer was announced before production began, they quickly changed the location to a hospital. This season of American Horror Story was partially inspired by that initial idea.