The “cookie race” was an actual event that show co-creator witnessed when playing high school football.

Where exactly BMS is set and what schools it was inspired by was a question that persisted throughout the course of the show. Show creator Eric Falconer shed a bit of light on this in his Reddit AMA:

We never really decided on a specific location for the school. We wanted to treat it like the Simpsons treat Springfield… could be anywhere in the US. We drew inspiration from all big party schools. We looked specifically at Boise State and University of Miami back in the 80’s and early 90’s.

It’s likely that they got the school colors (blue and orange) as well as the midwestern vibe from Boise, and the crazy partying and boosters from Miami.

Serial killers often view their victims as dummies on which they can inflict their torture, sadism, and power lust on – they don’t view them as fellow humans. For example, Ted Bundy applied makeup to one of his dead victim’s face before having sex with it, because he felt “If you’ve got time, they can be anything you want them to be”.

This shows that Rust is right about the killings being impersonal, despite the high attention to detail to the crime. Like most serial killer victims, Dora Lang was just in the wrong place at the wrong time and became a dummy that her killers could project their fetishes upon. The blindfold confirms that not only did they not care about who she was, they likely wanted to imagine her as someone else.

Drake’s verse (as well as the beat) originated on Mally Mall’s “Whatcha Say.” It was likely one of the joints Nicki told Ryan Seacrest that Drake had sent her for The Pinkprint.

Episode: “Free Family Portrait Studio”

“Last week I may have gone too far. I’ll explain it quickly. Basically, I found out where he got his clothes dry-cleaned, custom ordered the same suit made with tearaway velcro, and… you can fill in the rest”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoEpScbRPCY

Episode: “Customer Loyalty”

While Jim dreamed this one up in around 2006 (season 2), he didn’t put it into motion until the final season. It involves a quest for the Holy Grail and the “Dunder Code” supposedly left behind by Dunder-Mifflin co-founder Robert Dunder.

Dwight and the rest of the office spend the episode trying to hunt it down, until they realize it was already discovered by warehouse employee Glenn, who was using it as a coffee mug.