The episode features a "prototype" of what would become the recurring character Lindsey Naegle.
Couch gag: Firemen are using the couch as a net but Homer misses and hits the floor.
This was the second episode about Homer and Lisa that Brian Scully wrote for the series, the first one being Lost Our Lisa (1998).
Chalkboard: "I do not have diplomatic immunity".
Originally, the conversation Marge listens to was between two women, but the writers thought it would be "too cliche" to show women gossiping, and changed it to Moe and Lenny instead.