Near the beginning, Lorelai sits down at the kitchen table and slices an apple to eat. Later on in a future season of the series, Lorelai has a pregnancy scare. It starts when she craves an apple. She talks in that future episode about how she doesn't like apples and the only time she ever wanted apples was when she was pregnant. Clearly, the apple idea didn't come to the writers early in the show. You can see apples in a bowl on the table in a few other early episodes.
In this episode, we learn that Rory's birthday is October 8th.
The big poster above Lorelai's bed in her teenage bedroom is from Echo and the Bunnymen.
There are multiple Duran Duran posters in Lorelai's teenage room. Two on the door, and two on the wall above the bed.
Emily meets Luke, Miss Patty, Sookie and Lane in this episode