A clip from a fictional action movie titled 'McBain' is shown (a parody of Arnold Schwarzenegger movies and violent 1980s cop films like the Lethal Weapon (1987) series). Months after this episode was first broadcast, the action movie McBain (1991) was released, starring Christopher Walken as Robert McBain, an ex-soldier who takes on a Colombian dictator.
The producers had to hire soundalikes to record The Carpenters' "Close to You" because they could not obtain permission to use the Carpenters' version.
Mr. Seckofsky (the shop teacher) is missing a finger.
The first episode to feature a prolonged flashback.
A brief scene of I Married Marge (1991) is shown (the part where Dr. Hibbert tells Marge that she's pregnant and Homer yells, "D'oh!"), but it would not be until the following season that that story would be told in its entirety.