Mickey Adams may be inspired, in part, by the real-life genius songwriter/musician Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys. Mickey keeps a piano in an inspired location to write. Brian Wilson famously kept a piano in a full-sized sand box in the living room of his former Hollywood Hills home so that he would think of the beach as he composed new songs. Additionally, Brian Wilson was obsessed with the song "Be My Baby" by The Ronettes, going so far as to listen to the recording an estimated 1,000 times. Mickey's doorbell plays the opening to "Be My Baby".
The name of Mickey's home is Xanadon't - a play on Xanadu.
Kelsey Grammer, William Fichtner, and Jackson White have all stared in Michael Bay films. Fichtner starred in Armageddon (1998) and Pearl Harbor (2001), Grammer starred in Transformers : L'Âge de l'extinction (2014), and White starred in Ambulance (2022).
This isn't Jail, it's a holding cell in Malibu.