Jon Gries plays Rusty, the homeless man who steals the Rickshaw. He previously played a homeless man in The Beard (1995). Kramer gives him Chinese food leftovers in some Tupperware and then later he refuses to give the container back.
This is the second time George steals something to get even with a store clerk. In "The Stranded," he believes he was shorted changed in a drug store and returns later to steal cold medicine for Jerry. He is caught and arrested, as he is in "The Bookstore."
Kramer (Michael Richards) says that he met a horse named Rusty once. He refers to episode 7.11 The Rye (1996).
This episode represents one of the two times ever in the series that Jerry's (Jerry Seinfeld) bike was ever removed from hanging on the wall. The other being The Apology (1997).