While Ben (Brendan Fraser) is spinning J.D. in pediatrics, Zach Braff improvises the line "Eagle!" This is the first of many times "Eagle!" is said throughout the series.
In the scene in which Ben (Brendan Fraser) picks J.D. (Zach Braff) up over his shoulder and spins him around in the air, Braff is actually doing some of the camera work. He held the camera out in his arms and shot the close-ups of his face himself.
When Todd is speaking to two nurses about a patient, he says he wants to perform a "pancreaticoduodenectomy" also known as the Whipple procedure that Turk wanted to perform earlier in the episode.
Christa Miller and Bob Clendenin appear in this episode in a scene together. They both went on to later star in Cougar Town together
This is the first time we see The Worthless Peons perform.