* One of the cavemen at Tufts appeared in an earlier cutaway gag involving dogs being domesticated in "Da Doggone Daddy-Daughter Dinner Dance".
* The song that plays when Cleveland has a flashback to his college days is "Two Princes" by the Spin Doctors.
* Junior tries out for the play Equus, about a psychiatrist who attempts to treat a young man who has a pathological religious & sexual fascination with horses.
* While waiting for Cleveland to return from The Broken Stool, Donna read Waiting on Your Husband.
* As he rides tied beneath the donkey, Cleveland identifies rocks as he passes, noting that he was a geology minor. In "A Short Story and a Tall Tale", he claimed his major was ceramics.
*The celebrities Roberta and Cleveland point out didn't go to college include pop star Rihanna and socialite Kim Kardashian.
* The Kappa Alpha Kappa wall of fame includes:
**Lee Harvey Oswald
**Seal
**Tom Brokaw
**Allen Funt
**Elliot Gould
**Rosey Grier
**"Kelly" from The Bad News Bears