Mac (Tina Majorino) says she wants to find and kill the creator of ultimate frisbee. Executive producer Joel Silver was one of the creators.
Paul Rudd's character, Desmond Fellows, wears a shirt that says "RENTAL" near the end of the episode. This shirt was worn by Frank Zappa in a famous photo from 1968. Desmond also wears a shirt that says "WORKING CLASS HERO," an altered design (reversed colors) of a shirt worn in 1977 by John Lennon.
Kristen Bell (Veronica) & Paul Rudd (Desmond Fellows) also worked together on Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008) as Sarah Marshall and Chuck respectively.
The title of the episode is a reference to the Bob Dylan album titled "The Basement Tapes", or possibly to the 1992 Biff Bang Pow album of the same name.
Desmond (Paul Rudd) performs his show at a club called Liberty Lunch, a reference to a now-defunct venue in Austin, Texas, where series creator Rob Thomas used to reside.