Elaine starts dating Tim Whatley in this episode & they share a kiss. Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Elaine) was suffering from a very bad cold and had a temperature of 103. Knowing the kiss was going to happen, Louis-Dreyfus apologised in advance to Bryan Cranston (Whatley). Sure enough, two days later, Cranston spent a week in bed and lost three pounds after catching whatever it was she gave him.
This episode has been credited with significantly popularizing the term "regift."
The Super Bowl would have been SB XXIX between the 49ers and the Chargers, won by San Francisco, 49-26.
The episode's scene on the subway with the conversation about Ukraine became widely popular after the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.
George calls Bonnie and Scott's living arrangement a "bizarre Harrad experiment," referring to the 1973 movie "The Harrad Experiment," that's about a co-Ed college where students are encouraged to explore their sexuality by practicing free love.