Lisa Kudrow, who has a recurring role as waitress Ursula Buffay, makes her first appearance in this episode, but as a different character: Paul's blind date, Karen.
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When Jamie takes the newspaper from Paul, she claims her parents obituary is in the paper. Earlier in the season, in Riding Backwards (1992), when Jamie wanted to get another passenger to give up her seat for Paul, she claimed Paul's mother had died.
Jamie Stemple hijacks Paul's Sunday paper by saying that beams fell on her parents. Stemple, as defined by the Merriam-Webster dictionary is, "...a crossbar of wood in a mine shaft serving some special purpose", or a beam.