The scene at the newspaper office was shot at the tax reporting business location of Kip Bennett's aunt.
Joe Mock, the actor playing Sam, manages the Hyde Park and Pendleton/Over-The-Rhine offices for Cutler Real Estate, one of the largest independent real estate companies in the state of Ohio.
Creator Joe Zappa's father and uncle are in attendance at Chris Schaefer's (Kip Bennett) scarcely attended concert. The sequence was shot at Northern Kentucky University, where his brother John Zappa teaches music history.