At one point in the episode, Dorothy accuses Blanche of regularly pretending to be Angie Dickinson. In the next episode, Blanche pretends to be Dickinson in order to get a hotel room.
The restaurant Dorothy and Barbara eat lunch at has a menu that is styled as a novel that is broken up into chapters. Each meal on the menu is a play on words with different famous novels. Dishes include "The Crepes of Wrath", The Old Man and the Seafood Salad. Dorothy orders "For Whom the Stuff Bell Peppers Tolls", while Barbara orders a turkey sandwich on "Catcher in the Rye" bread with a side order of George Bernard Slaw (coleslaw).
Bonnie Bartlett plays a writer friend of Dorothy's. At the start of the episode the characters discuss her in reference to other great authors with the joke being one of them includes Arnold Schwarzenegger in the list of great authors. Later in the year Bonnie Bartlett played Arnold Schwarzenegger's mother in Twins.
Despite being in the title of the episode, Dorothy has the least amount of screen time.