This episode had an "alternate ending" that could only be viewed online. The alternate ending begins with Veronica (Kristen Bell) finding Meg Alona Tal pregnant; however, this time, Meg's mother (played by Katie Mitchell) enters & Veronica hides in the bathroom. When she comes out, Meg is dead, a pillow over her face, and Veronica pulls it off just as a nurse comes in. This alternate ending can also be viewed in the deleted scenes of the season two DVD.
Mac (Tina Majorino) is looking at a graphic on the computer when Cassidy (Kyle Gallner) approaches her. It's Kristen Bell's dog, Lola.
The task Veronica (Kristen Bell) was given for detention was to re-organise the permanent record files. Harry Potter was given the same task for detention by Snape in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009), published the summer immediately prior to this season. Veronica even sarcastically asks "And I'm not allowed to use magic right?"
Niccolò Machiavelli was a Renaissance Italian historian, politician, diplomat, philosopher, humanist, and writer based in Florence. He is best known as the author of The Prince, a work of political theory which argues that a ruler must be able to separate public and private morality, be willing to act immorally when necessary, and methodically exercise brute force or deceit on occasion. In the vernacular, "Machiavellian" is a pejorative term for deceptive or even immoral actions to advance one's interests.
In an earlier episode it was stated that Lianne Mars (Corinne Bohrer) graduated from high school in 1979. In this episode however, Lianne was said to still be in high school in 1980.