A poster for the horror film Scream (1996) as well as the Ghostface mask from the film can be seen in Dawson's room. Scream was written by Dawson's Creek creator Kevin Williamson.
Season 1 originally aired with movie related titles for each episodes. This one was originally: "Pretty Woman."
During contestant interviews, one of the girls describes wanting to get into early education for special needs kids and coincides this phrase with the word 'retarded,' a word widely accepted in the 1990s but has since become a derogatory term for people with cognitive disabilities.