The final scene, in which Kate and her father meet, Tim Minear originally wrote as a "big TV ending where they hug." Joss Whedon suggested that instead, Kate's father acts as though nothing has changed. "If it had gone the other way," Minear says, "I think the whole thing would have collapsed. That's really Joss knowing best."
Doyle's growing attraction to Cordelia comes out in the open between them when Kate singsongs, "Someone's got a cru-ush." Despite her instant defensive remark, "We just joke around," Cordelia appears to consider Doyle and his feelings seriously for the first time.
The memo regarding the Sensitivity training indicates it takes place within November 1999, at least as of Kate's attendance of the sensitivity classes.
Manny the Pig who was hiding Spike in the episode "In the Dark" can be seen here now as a prisoner.
Tim Minear regrets the actor they cast in the role of mobster Little Tony, saying although John Capodice was "very good", the character was "clichéd ... a Sopranos knock off."