Two of the runaway daughters' parents are played by actual married couples: Roger and Julie Corman and Christopher and Dee Wallace Stone.
There are several homages to the original 1956 film this move is based upon. At a movie theater there is a poster for the original movie. After the girls leave town they stop at a gas station. The company name over the gas pump is "American International" Petroleum. This name and the company's logo is identical to the company that released the original film.
A Naked Paradise (1957) poster hangs inside the Skyline Drive-In movie theater. Dick Miller ("Roy Farrell") also starred in that movie.
A Rock All Night (1957) poster hangs inside the Skyline Drive-In movie theater. Dick Miller ("Roy Farrell") also starred in that movie.
Jimmy at one point demands a character "Quit crowdin' me." This is a line said repeatedly by the protagonist of the B-movie Speed Crazy (1959), clips of which are heavily featured in Joe Dante and Jon Davison's The Movie Orgy (1968).