The first time prime time series featured "Son of a bitch" in dialogue was in this episode, which was quite controversial.
Jill Eikenberry and Michael Tucker, who play the tourist couple of Sarah and Gabe Fimple, are married in real life. They later went on to play a husband and wife team as lawyers on LA Law for eight years starting two years later in 1986. L.A. Law was also a Steven Bochco production.
This is the first use of the now famous line "Let's do it to them before they do it to us" from Sgt; Stan Jablonski at the end of morning roll call.
Norman Alexander Gibbs and Al White, who played the "Jive Talking Dudes" in Airplane! (1980), both appear in this episode, although they share no scenes.