Rachel tells Joey, "I had a crush on you when we first met." In reality Matt LeBlanc (Joey) had a crush on Jennifer Aniston (Rachel) when they first met.
When Phoebe says, "Has she cooked your rabbit yet?", she refers to the famous scene from Fatal Attraction (1987).
Whilst Monica and Phoebe are looking for a picture at the start of the episode, there is a still from Season 4's The One with Ross's Wedding (1998).
Julia Campbell, Ross's girlfriend, and Lisa Kudrow starred in Romy and Michele's High School Reunion (1997) together.
This aired a few months before David Sutcliffe began his role as Rory's father Christopher on Gilmore Girls (2000).