Ken Jeong appears in this episode as a male nurse. Prior to becoming an actor, Ken Jeong was, and still is, a doctor.
Alan jokes about the outdated magazine in Dr. Talmadge's office with a sarcastic line about the Soviet Union boycotting the 1984 Olympics. Charlie Sheen played a character named Ditch Brody in "Terminal Velocity" (1994), in which he played a skydiving instructor whose chance at participating in the 1980 Moscow Olympics was thwarted by the USA boycott.
Episode title spoken by Charlie, to Alan.