In this episode, George (Jason Alexander) offers a scholarship to a boy named Steven Koren. Steve Koren is the name of one of the show's writers and producers.
Guest Actress Christine Taylor would subsequently marry Ben Stiller, son of series semi regular Jerry Stiller (Frank).
Kramer refers to the pizza at Lorenzo's as being "a little oily." This is a nod to the 1992 film Lorenzo's Oil.
Bob Sacamano is a fictional friend of Kramer (Michael Richards). He is never seen but is the source of many bizarre anecdotes. Larry Charles has stated that Sacamano was a real-life friend, although the two fell out shortly after the character was first introduced. Throughout the course of the series he was referenced in the following episodes:
Jerry's line: "This is like that "Twilight Zone" where the guy wakes up, and he's the same, but everyone else is different!" is a reference to the first episode of "The Twilight Zone": "Where Is Everybody?" in which a man wakes up and finds himself in a world where no one remembers him; or a reference to the episode: "Person or Persons Unknown," where a man wakes up from a wild night out and finds himself in a world where no one knows him; or the episode: "The Eye of the Beholder," where a woman wakes up from surgery and everyone but she has a pig face; or any one of the many other similar episodes in this long-running series.