2011 Film:
- Actor Allusion:
- The name of the protagonist in Gluck's last film, "O. Penderghast," shows up on a sign. This is also an Actor Allusion given the Emma Stone cameo.
- Woody Harrelson has played basketball before.
- The Cast Showoff: Justin Timberlake sings rather often.
- Dueling Movies:
- No Strings Attached had the same basic plotline and was released six months before. And for an added bonus, the female lead of that movie is Mila Kunis's Black Swan co-star, Natalie Portman, and Mila also played Ashton Kutcher's girlfriend on That '70s Show (and in real life too). Better still, Justin Timberlake was a member of *NSYNC, who released an album called No Strings Attached.
- To drive things home further, Kutcher and Kunis later got together in real life - and they have said that their relationship was originally a Friends with Benefits arrangement but they ended up falling in love, just like their characters in the films.
- Irony as She Is Cast: That Justin Timberlake sure isn't much of a singer...
2011 NBC Sitcom:
- Actor-Shared Background: Sara Maxwell and portrayer Danneel Ackles both hail from Louisiana.
