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  • The show makes a meta joke about Stan's leaping out of bed during the theme song. It is also given the name of 'leap of faith'.
    • Stan breaks the fourth wall to address the band outside the house that plays the theme song, and gives them the week off with pay.
  • Stan takes an early morning walk through Langley's gaslamp district before going back to bed.
  • Stan takes his own food to the Johnny 50's Diner, considering the food to be awful there. He only goes there for the atmosphere.
    • Klaus agrees with Stan about the bad food.
  • Francine has hepatitis C.
  • Stan considers a rerun of Happy Days bad because it features Potsie.
  • In a running gag, various characters show concept art depicting scenes as they imagine them.
  • Roger asserts that glory holes were bigger in the 50's, being able to accommodate both himself and the Everly brothers at the same time. He believes J.P. Richardson, aka 'the Big Bopper', was on the other side.
Gaslamp District
  • Except for the diner, the entire gaslamp district consists of Chase Bank locations.
  • Stan's original plan to save the diner involved 8 weeks of work, before being shortened to 48 hours by Hayley.
  • Stan's original name for his plan was ' Operation 50s Heat Up Get'Em Interested in the 50's and save Johnny Fifties'. He steals Klaus' idea of 'Operation 50's Fever'.
  • Klaus is dispatched to Milwaukee to steal a statue of the Fonz because Stan does not want his fishbowl water sloshing over the classic cars.
  • Stan considers Elvis to be 'singing Fonzie'.
  • Stan acquires his classic cars from the CIA's Cuban connections.
  • Stan stages his knife fight at a replica of the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles, a key set piece in the James Dean film, Rebel Without a Cause.
    • The drag race is set at a replica of the Los Angeles River, part of the drainage canal system and the set of the climatic drag race in Grease.
  • A police officer recognizes Stan as part of the Sha Na Na look-alikes in the mental ward talent show in "American Fung".
  • Roger's band in the 1950s was 'Roger and His Fabulous Jersey Boys'.
  • Songs in the jukebox include:
    • "The Way We Used to Groan" by the Four Groaners.
    • "Gandolfini Summer" by Little AJ and his Sopranos.
    • "Drag Race Angels" by Roger and his Fabulous Jersey Boys.
    • "Whole Slotta Bones" by Roy Skeleton.
    • "Monster Crash (The Day the Monster Died)" by Frank King.
    • "Expertly Driving a Hot Rod Around Town" by Diana Tarzana.
    • "I Am a Dog (A Dog Man)" by Bobby Peeves.
    • "The Devil (Lives in Hell) by Reverend Gummy Reese.
    • "Gimme That Fat Hammock" by Tommy LaGroin.
    • "Moon Beat (I Want to Eat the Moon)" by Jimmy 'Moonman' Ross.

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