The film was seen by David Bowie and Iggy Pop, who championed DEVO and enabled them to secure a recording contract with Warner Bros. Records.
The ping-pong paddles shown in the "Secret Agent Man" segment have images of Richard Nixon and Chairman Zedong Mao on them.
Devo has claimed, occasionally, that the film contains subliminal messages, which allowed it to win at Ann Arbor.
The "Shine On America" mural shown in the pre-"Jocko Homo" segment also appears on the cover of The Akron Compilation, an album of songs by Akron area bands.