Valerie Mahaffey plays the role of Jennifer Malone one last time after the abrupt departure of Julie Hagerty. This is the final appearance of Malone, whose disappearance is never explained on-screen.
Delta Burke's real-life husband, Gerald McRaney, reprises the role of Suzanne's ex-husband Dash, which he'd previously played on Designing Women (1986).
The novel The Afternoon Wife appears in an episode of Sabrina, the Teenage Witch. In the season 1 episode "Dream Date", Sabrina's aunt Hilda is seen reading the novel while awaiting her date.