Kayla is incredulous when Eliza says that she's 30 years too young to be Connie's friend, at which point Eliza adjusts the number down to 20 years. In reality, Melissa Fumero is 26 and a half years younger than Olga Merediz.
Tim tries to help publicize the store by purchasing a piece of Hollywood memorabilia to display (a plate purportedly featured in Hannibal (2001)). This mirrors real world events when John Oliver purchased several pieces of memorabilia from Russell Crowe's "divorce sale," most famously a leather jockstrap worn in Cinderella Man (2005), and donated them to the last remaining Blockbuster in Alaska. Having the items on display piqued national news coverage but did not stop the store from going out of business 4 months later, at which point the items (minus the jockstrap, which was subsequently used in Authoritarianism (2018)) were sent to the last remaining Blockbuster store in the world in Bend, Oregon.