When the Maloneys are describing the antique Windsor chair owned by Thomas Jefferson and purported to be the chair that he sat in when writing the Declaration of Independence, Lt. Disher asks "Does it swivel?" Thomas Jefferson actually invented the swivel chair (adapting a Windsor chair), and wrote much of the Declaration of Independence while seated in it.
Monk says to Ron Arbash "you look familiar". The actor playing Ron Arbash is Tony Shalhoub's brother, Michael Shalhoub.
This is the first of two episodes where no one dies. The next was Mr. Monk and the Kid (2005)(#3.16).
Monk's San Francisco Police Department uniform that he has stowed away in his closet shows that he had obtained the rank of lieutenant.