The subplot with Frank urinating in jars was based on Tina Fey's real-life experience writing for Saturday Night Live (1975). Some of the male writers would pee in cups rather than go "all the way" to the bathroom, which Tina says was not at all far away.
In the acrostic Tracy Jr. made for his father, the Y says, "Y is for Yakuza, the Japanese mob. When he shot a movie there, from them did he rob."
Don Geiss's trademark offer that can't be refused was trademarked in 1974, two years after The Godfather (1972).
This episode aired during NBC's third Green Week (the first was in 2007).