The episode won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series.
Brent Collins, who played Dr. Jonathan Newman, died two years after this episode first aired. The cause of death was a heart attack as a complication of Marfan syndrome coupled with his dwarfism.
This episode is Betty White's favorite of the entire series. White said that despite the fact that "every 'short' joke in the book" was used, none of the humor was truly hurtful.
With Princess Diana's death in 1997, former First Lady Jackie Kennedy's death in 1994, and Senator Ted Kennedy's death in 2009, none of Jeane Dixon's predictions came true.
In the dream sequence in Rose's bedroom, Blanche's line is cut after Dorothy speaks and before Sophia comes out of the closet dressed like a priest.