Just before he starts the pool game with Boyd, Eddie tells Steve Urkel to go home, and Steve proclaims, "I don't have to stand here and take this. I'm going home!" As a result, his exchange would become a running gag on the series until after season 6 when he moves in with the Winslows, although it mostly happened with Carl, and the response was, "I don't have to take this, I'm going home!"
Fast Eddie Nelson, the character to which the episode's title refers, is Paul Newman's character from The Hustler (1961)
Final appearance of Rodney.