After George tells Mary and Meemaw that he used to listen to Black Sabbath and Satan didn't get his soul, Meemaw asks him: "What happened, did you trade it for some doughnuts?", which is exactly what Homer Simpson did in a Halloween special.
Richard Kind plays a Jewish furniture show owner in the late 1980s. Three few years later, on The Goldbergs (2013), also set in the 1980s, Richard Kind's Jewish Formica store owner character will buy a furniture store.