When Ray and Ally are selling cookies, the lady, that walks by with her little boy, is Stephanie Courtney aka Flo the Progressive Insurance lady.
Amy Aquino's sales pitch to the girls at the beginning of the episode is loosely based on Alec Baldwin's in Glengarry Glen Ross.
In the kitchen, Frank is reading a copy of Long Island Newsday. The headline is Billingualism: The Talk of the City. At the time of this production, January, 2002, Newsday began the new practice of cutting back from three sections to two, eliminating 48 pages.