To spoof the title which no longer matches the content of the series, in the second season the producers started adding self-deprecating jokes to the show's title card. The one for this episode reads: We should have live cougars on "Cougar Town".
Although Grayson describes the chalk children as being like "children of the corn" the unblinking eyes and albino look is actually based on Children of the Damned (1964)
Greyson says that the children look like they are children of the corn. One of the kids, Dusty Burwell was in Children of the Corn: Genesis (2011).