The woman who approaches Brenda in the restaurant while she's waiting for her mother to return from the restroom is actually Jeremy Sisto's mother.
When Ruth finds marijuana in Claire's room, she says "I read somewhere that it should be treated as a spice. Just a little pinch here and there." Writer Scott Buck says that this was advise given to him when he was a teenager.
Edward Gordon Gorodetsky, one of the casualties at the beginning of the episode, is actually the name of a close friend of Scott Buck, the writer of the episode.
This episode was Emmy nominated for Outstanding Art Direction.
The "Loving Couples" TV show that Ruth and George are watching, is entirely fictional. It is not real, and was filmed purely for this episode.