Card: Before commercial yeast hit the market, home bakers had to use suds from local brewers.

Card: Parker House rolls are sometimes called pocketbook rolls due to their purse-like appearance.

Card: Raw rolls stuck together in a pan and then baked are called monkey bread.

The Title: A “roll call” occurs when someone reads from a roster of names, and those present are expected to confirm their presence by answering in some manner when they year their name. The title puns on this; what Alton is doing is calling on cooks to return rolls to their repertoire.

Alton: Hi. I'm Alton Brown. And after years of tireless research I've come to the conclusion that the maelstrom of mediocrity in which our culture currently finds itself spastically spinning was set into motion by an event that took place right here – the very epicenter of our civilization: the dinner table.

Alton: Once the soft, aromatic, warm, yeast-y, slightly sweet edible hug that is the dinner roll disappeared from the American table our civilization began... to quietly... crumble.

Alton: (to his yeast puppets) I'm... going to have to let you go.

Alton: It's a tough list to memorize, which is why I penned this handy mnemonic phrase: I have imagined seeing a demented, rabid platypus carelessly drinking blue cocktails.

Alton: It's been ten minutes, and we've made progress! Good thing, too, because I was starting to think maybe my spore... was on death's door!

Alton: I think old Harvey Parker would be darn proud!

Alton: (answering the phone) Hello?
Sid Maxberg: AB, baby, DJ Sid here! Sid... Sid Maxberg, agent to the food stars! Listen, amigo, word is out on the street that your suffering from a serious yeast problem.
(Giggling, Alton's original yeast puppets appear.)
Alton: That is outrageous! Who told you that?
Sid: You know how the town talks! I may just have a solution for you... but it's going to cost you... oh, yes, it's going to cost you!! (He begins laughing maniacally.)

Orienting a Parker House roll one way, Alton claims to use it in an Angelina Jolie Halloween costume. Oriented another, he says it will serve in a Mr. Limpet costume. Angelina Jolie is an American film actress famous (in part) for her large lips. Mr. Limpet was a character created by actor Don Knotts for a 1941 film, The Incredible Mr. Limpet. In the film, Knotts's character Henry Limpet, through a series of circumstances, finds his wish to become a fish granted. Presumably, oriented the other way a Parker House roll reminds Alton of a fish's mouthparts.

Alton's “Oh, bother”, a frequent utterance, comes from Winnie the Pooh

Alton's new yeast, with their soft purring, uncontrolled rate of reproduction, and the final indignity of pouring onto Alton from an opened cabinet, are a parody of tribbles. Tribbles are fictional creatures from the Star Trek franchise, first appearing in “The Trouble With Tribbles”, a second season episode. Entirely inoffensive, they nevertheless present a hazard if removed from their predator filled homes, since they reproduce extremely rapidly and consume any available plant life to do so.

That's Another Show: Hamburger buns. It seems unlikely given the series' cancelation that we will ever see this show.

Sid Maxberg, agent to the food stars, is a recurring character who represents the stereotypical pushy Hollywood agent.