Drew is revealed to have obtained an Absol.
There are 270 participants in the Grand Festival, which would mean that there had to have been at least 1,350 Contests held throughout the Kanto region.
For an unknown reason, this episode's title card is written in all caps.
Solidad, Drew, Harley, and May advance from the preliminaries to the first round of the Kanto Grand Festival.
The dub title of this episode might be inspired by the Irish song "Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye". It may also be based on the phrase "We hardly knew ya".