"The Sponge/Pinsky Gazette" was a nod to "Citizen Kane" with Pinsky taking over the Camp Newspaper and saying "They'll think what I want them to think" and the ending reference to "Rosebud" which Ug doesn't understand but "it fits".
The "song" that Budnick and Jamie Mallott Jr. "Perform" was an instrumental that obviously had no guitar parts though Budnick and Jamie are "playing" guitar. The same song appears in a montage in "Sponge-Pinsky Gazette".
The newspaper room in "Sponge-Pinsky Gazette" was the same soundstage that was used as the extended kitchen in "Bunk Chief Elections".
Pinsky's full name is mentioned as Ronald Foster Pinsky.
"The Sponge/Pinsky Gazette" was a nod to "Citizen Kane" with Pinsky taking over the Camp Newspaper and saying "They'll think what I tell them to think" and the ending reference to "Rosebud" which Ug doesn't understand but "it fits".