Flashback scenes feature many cast members from previous episodes in cameo roles, including Chazz Palminteri and Patti D'Arbanville. Also features the song "Someone To Watch Over Me," which Deborah Harry sang in the "Dead Dog Records" story arc.
The episode originally opened and closed with Brook Benton's "Its Just A Matter of Time." It fell victim, along with many other songs, to the refusal to pay royalties, and was replaced with filler music on dvd.
The appearance of the Milton Bradley game Twister places the flashbacks at no earlier than the 14th of December, 1966. Thus, Vinnie is reading things his father wrote from about twenty years earlier.