George's remark to the beautiful woman at Monks: "How's your life? All right?" was something Seinfeld once heard Keith Richards say, so he promptly added it to the script.
Kramer (Michael Richards) gets into a misunderstanding with a cop who later turns up suddenly wearing an unexplained eye patch. The scene with the explanation--he has a stye--was cut for time.
When Jerry (Jerry Seinfeld) tells Kramer (Michael Richards) he looks like a pirate, Kramer's response, "I want to be a pirate" is a reference to episode 5.2, The Puffy Shirt (1993), where he tells Jerry he'll be the first pirate in the new trend if he wears the puffy shirt, and Jerry says, "I don't wanna be a pirate."
The story of a man with an eyepatch pursuing a "white whale" is a nod to Herman Melville's Moby Dick.
In this episode Marty Rackham plays Jake, an author and boyfriend of Elaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus). Marty has had several appearances throughout the series. He first played an LAPD officer in episode 4.2, The Trip: Part 2 (1992), before appearing as Jake in episode 5.4, The Sniffing Accountant (1993), 5.21, The Opposite (1994), and finally, this episode.