This episode promulgates a longstanding but totally unfounded urban legend that the actor Sal Mineo, played here by James Gaudioso, was killed by a man he had tried to pick up for sex. In fact, the man who confessed to and was tried and convicted for stabbing Mineo had been a pizza deliveryman who killed Mineo while trying to rob him. The actual murderer had no idea who Mineo was, either in a short-term sexual encounter sense or in a larger awareness of his celebrity. Also, Mineo was only stabbed once (not the multiple times shown in this episode), though the stab was in his heart.
The house used in filming is the Rosenheim Mansion.
Connie Britton (Vivien Harmon) and Eric Close (Hugo Langdon) have also appeared together in Nashville (2012), as husband and wife.
Christine Estabrook (Marcy) and Frances Conroy (Moira) appeared together in HBO's Six Feet Under (S2E5 "Invisible Woman").