One scene in the film shows a person using Liquid Paper to correct sheet music. Liquid Paper was invented by Michael Nesmith's mother.
The review of the film Head (1968) that Peter reads is by Pauline Kael writing for The New York Times. She admitted to walking out of the film halfway through it. The film has, however, been reconsidered by many critics and is now thought of as a classic of 1960s cinema and a harbinger of post-modernism.
At one point in the film, character Davy Jones says to one of the other Monkees who has just awakened him suddenly "Hey, man, are you trying to give me a heart attack?" Davy Jones actually died of a heart attack in 2012 at age 66.
The film originally aired on VH1.
Even in scenes in the film that took place before and during the filming of the pilot and the first season's episodes of The Monkees (1965), as well as the recording of their third album, Headquarters, The Monkees throughout this film have hairstyles that they sported at some point during the TV series' second season, except for Davy, who has a hairstyle that he sported at some point during its first season.