John Diehl does not appear at all in this episode, the fifth time so far this season. His regular absence is no doubt linked to his desire to leave the show, culminating in the death of Zito in Down for the Count (1987).
Trudy's response to Tubbs (posing as her pimp) asking her to give him a kiss, "Uh, uh! You had your chance!", is a reference to Walk-Alone (1986), in which a conjugal visit with Tubbs in Bolton Prison did not contain a kiss.
Olivia Brown and Whoopi Goldberg performed backing vocals on Don Johnson's song "Streetwise". In fact, Brown performs her spoken lines from the song live in the episode, the second time a main cast member would sing live on the show (Philip Michael Thomas sang his song "Livin' the Book of My Life" in The Maze (1985)). Saundra Santiago would later two jazz standards in Heroes of the Revolution (1987).
Despite the fact that this was the tenth episode of season 3, the opening sequence does not have the Testarossa night drive clip; instead, "Also Starring Saundra Santiago" is shown over the aerial pan of the Miami beach front.