According to the gag reels on the DVD, the cast had to retake the scene where Ross and Ben first come into the coffee house to see Rachel several times because the boy who played Ben actually began saying "Dada" when prompted by David Schwimmer.
This is the third episode of this season in which the title is "The One Where... Dies" after Mr Heckles and Dr Ramoray.
When Richard is explaining to Monica that the guys are going to watch the college basketball playoffs, Monica says "Go Vassar". Lisa Kudrow went to Vassar College.
In this episode, Phoebe says that her mother always turned off Old Yeller (1957) after Old Yeller saved the family from the pack of wolves. She never saw the part where Travis had to shoot Old Yeller until she saw Monica, Rachel, Ross and Richard watching the movie. However, the movie does end on a positive note when the Coates family takes in a new puppy sired by Old Yeller, naming it "Young Yeller."