Scarlett Johannson and Alex D. Linz previously played siblings in Home Alone 3.
To punish Nick Fuoco after the mess that he made Eva Mendes tells him that he can't watch "TGIF" which was a television block on ABC which started in 1989 and aired every friday night. In 1999 the shows that would be airing when this movie came out would be "Two Of a Kind(1998)", Brothers keeps (1998)," Sabrina The Teenage Witch(1996)," and "Boy Meets World(1993)."
Even though you can't fully see it, Eva Mendes's red book bag is a JanSport which was extremely popular at that time.
When George puts Freud in a headlock he starts creaming out different wrestling finishing moves which were moves by WCW and WWF wrestlers. The scorpion death drop was Stings finisher, the torture rack was Lex Lugers finisher, the DDT was Jake The Snake Roberts finisher, and Ken Shamrocks finisher was the Ankle Lock.