It is revealed that Michael loves paper clips. When Michael, Eleanor, and Janet are in the square, Michael is wearing a paper clip bracelet.
The creepy "George Washington" clown painting in Eleanor's apartment is actually a retouched portrait of the 18th century French artist François Boucher by Gustaf Lundberg (1741).
The "bowling alley" is actually a duckpin alley. This is a form of bowling using ten small pins and a small ball without finger holes. In keeping with the funkiness of the series, this is an odd sport, being established a century ago, with its height in the 1960s and now in extreme decline, with only 40 certified alleys (located only in the northeast) and with pinsetter mechanisms that haven't been manufactured for decades.
This episode attracted 4.23 million viewers when it first aired.