This is the first and only episode that shows Lorelai and Rory celebrating Christmas.
While lamenting her inability to write a character reference for Luke, Lorelai says her writing comes off sounding like "some documentary narrator from The History Channel." Edward Herrmann, who plays Lorelai's father, Richard Gilmore, narrated several documentaries on The History Channel, even earning the nickname, "The History Channel Guy."
Gil's son is played by Jimmy Bennett. In the movie Evan Almighty, Lauren Graham played Evan's wife and Jimmy Bennett is one of their three sons.