The song "Hey, Hey, My, My" (which plays as Alex (Miles Heizer) is in the pool) was famously quoted in Kurt Cobain's suicide note: "Better to burn out than to fade away."
The first episode of the series to include a title sequence.
Battleme's cover of Neil Young's "Hey Hey, My My" was also used in season three of Sons of Anarchy (2008),
Steven Weber (Principal Gary Bolan) & Justin Prentice (Bryce Walker) both appeared in episode 2.17, Reflections of the Way Liv Used to Be (2016) of iZombie (2015) as Vaughn Du Clark and Brody Johnson respectively.
This is the second time Alisha Boe and Ross Butler have worked together - previously they appeared in two episodes of Teen Wolf (2011) together.