The film also plays homage to older cult classics that feature a "couples dynamic". The dinner scene in the film with Don and Mae Carpenter, an older couple living in the same apartment complex as the Blands, are inspired by "Microwave Massacre" (1979). When asked about dropping in Easter eggs through the film, Ricardo claims 'I am doing this so I can create my own sort of perverse grind-house inspired "cinematic universe". I would like to believe that all of these films all take place in the same universe and I would love be able to link scenes from each movie throughout my filmography moving forward, much like Kieslowski's films." In regards to the chaotic dinner scenes in the film with Don and Mae, Ricardo also goes on to say that the scenes are also inspired by a real situation where he was once invited over for a friend's holiday dinner party with family, and experienced the most outlandish situation, 'Everyone was eating awkwardly as the daughter was was introducing her new boyfriend to her parents, the grandmother was throwing her guts up at the dinner table into a pail set aside, the father, a fun Irishman joyfully going about his business, the grandfather talking about the lord, and everyone else trying to ignore what was happening...it was beautiful."
The title of the film "Meet The Blands" is actually in Paul Bartel's unpublished and unproduced screenplay "Bland Ambition", the sequel for "Eating Raoul". There is a scene in the original script where the Bland's attend a games show they are featured on, titled "Meet: The Blands". Ricardo had no idea at the time of creating his script that there was such a title contained within the subject matter of the planned film. He felt it would compliment and pay tribute to the original idea of Bartel's sequel and kept the title.
This film's production was delayed due to the Covid-19 pandemic.