The comic book which Emily takes a brief look at in the Lawrence household is 'Maus', by Art Spiegelman. This graphic novel follows the history of a Polish Jew, Spiegelman's own father, through the Nazi Jewish persecution, from Polish ghettos to his liberation from a concentration camp.
The Jean-Michel Basquiat painting in Commander and Mrs. Lawrence's home is "Untitled (Julius Caesar on Gold)," painted in 1981 and appeared in the show by permission of the painter's estate.
Bradley Whitford and Elisabeth Moss appeared together in The West Wing.
Alexis Bledel (Emily) & Bradley Whitford (Joseph Lawrence) also worked together on The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2005) as Lena & Al respectively.