Playing on the drive-in screen is a scene from Putney Swope (1969), which was written and directed by Robert Downey Sr., who plays the NCAA Investigator.
Uma Thurman gets an "Introducing Uma Thurman" credit despite the fact she had made her film debut the year before in Kiss Daddy Goodnight (1987)
Robert Downey Sr. played NCAA investigator Floyd Gondolli. That was the same name used by Philip Baker Hall in Boogie Nights (1997), in which Downey, Sr. also appeared.
Anthony Michael Hall and Robert Downey Jr. appeared in Weird Science (1985), Hail Caesar (1994), and on Saturday Night Live (1975).
The film cast includes one Oscar winner: Robert Downey Jr.; and four Oscar nominees: Uma Thurman, Seymour Cassell, Jennifer Tilly, and John Hawkes.