One subtle touch and one other note…
When Leonard is trying to make that first awkward small talk with the FBI agent, he notes that he was expecting Mulder, so he was pleasantly surprised to get Scully, which draws just a blank stare and a "Who?" from Dushku's character. Leonard gamely tries to explain it "You know,…

I just wanted to note as a teacher married to another teacher, we had four rules in picking baby names. Three of them came from being teachers:
1). Nothing in the SSA Top 50 for the last five years (to prevent commonality)
2). Immediately pronounceable upon first viewing (to prevent the "what is this moment" for out…

The Jeremy joke was pitch perfect for the age cohort that is Ted, Marshall, and Lily and was done in an understated way that remembered the era when MTV still occasionally played a music video.

Similarly, the fact that Ted got the instructions for how to rig the copy machine from freakzilla.com, marking the second time that Freakzilla became NewsRadio's go to "things you don't want to know about on the internet site" is also very "Hey it's 1998."