Neil Patrick Harris character's dad says 'suit up' which is what Neil Patrick Harris famous character Barney Stinson says in How I Met Your Mother (2005) all the time.
Aired less than two weeks after Doogie Howser, M.D. (1989) ended, the series that made guest star Neil Patrick Harris a household name.
At one point in the story, Tommy is warned by his father that his crush, Monica, is old enough to be his mother. In real life, Neil Patrick Harris who plays Tommy, and Liz Vassey who plays Monica, are just 10 months apart in age.
Tommy's dad is played by John Bennett Perry, real life father of the late Matthew Perry aka Chandler Bing on Friends. And Friends and it's popularity had a direct impact on the 12th season of Murder She Wrote being the last season.
This episode features Liz Vassey as the victim. The previous episode, Dead to Rights (1993), included Wallace Langham. Several years later, Vassey and Langham would appear together as colleagues and love interests in CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000).