For ABC network summer reruns and later syndication airings, a new cold open featuring Steve Urkel was filmed at the end of Season 1 and appended to this episode (as well as episodes 1.07, 1.08, and 1.10) to help fill the eleven episode gap before his first appearance. As a result, this episode is the earliest appearance of Steve Urkel (whom Carl does not address by name in the brief cold open scene with Carl) in rebroadcasts of the series. However, he was not introduced until episode 1.12 ("Laura's First Date").
Carl is wearing the same shirt Harriet wore in the previous episode, S1 E3.
Steve Urkel's appearance here was added on, once the show went into syndication. Although Carl never mentions his name, Jaleel White is credited at the end, as Steve Urkel. Rachel's date, played by an actor named Peter Fitzsimmons, received no credit at the end.