Giovanni Ribisi's first appearance as Phoebe's half-brother, Frank. Although he did make an appearance as a guy who accidentally drops a condom in Phoebe's guitar case in an earlier episode.
Monica likes watching the stock market because she saw a stock symbol with her initials, MEG. MEG is a real stock, belonging to Montrose Environmental Group Inc.
Monica says she buys CHP stocks because she had a crush on Erik Estrada, a reference to the show CHiPs (1977). Nicky Katt, who plays one of the bullies, had one of his first on air appearences on "CHiPs".
Phoebe first learns she has a brother in this episode, but her twin sister, Ursula, has previously mentioned having a brother on Pandora's Box (1994)
One of the bullies is played by Nicky Katt who not only infamously played the bully in Dazed and Confused (1993) but his victim in that film was played by Adam Goldberg whom had just completed his arc as Eddie on Friends.