Joe Lynch does not speak Spanish and had to study hard (with the help of co-star Laura Ortiz) to pull off his big speech to Laura's parents at the end of the episode. He ended up using cue cards to make sure he got it right. Guest star Virginia Montero (Laura's Mom) thought Joe hadn't memorized his lines and said something about it to him between takes.
Laura's Dad (played by Toneey Acevedo) first appeared in Season 1's episode "Laura's LIttle Twitter" in quick cutaway reactions to Laura's revealing Twitter photo.
James Gunn's character name ("John Anguish") is a shout-out to one of Adam Green's childhood friends and the designer of his ArieScope website for the past 15 years. In real life John Anguish is actually a very quiet and sweet guy and nothing like the character Gunn portrays.
Joe's "Spanish gibberish" is a joke Green first used in his CHILLERAMA segment "The Diary of Anne Frankenstein."
The joke about Corri dressing like a stripper and her increasingly revealing outfits was an inside joke with the cast in direct response to a review of HOLLISTON Season 1 that desperately tried to find something wrong with the show and in grasping at straws attempted to criticize Corri's wardrobe by accusing her character's costumes of being slutty and stating that "Corri English is dressed like a slutty cos-play version of herself." The cast and crew found this comment to be hilarious and Adam Green took it and ran with it.