 At one point, Cary says, "I live my life a quarter mile at a time."  Shane responds with, "Thats the dumbest thing Ive ever heard!"  This was an intentional poke at  _Fast and the Furious, The (2001)_ (qv). Vin Diesel (qv)s  character used the phrase in that movie (which was also produced by  Neal H. Moritz (qv)).