Carol calls Cassie a bad penny. Kaley Cuoco's famous for her character in The Big Bang Theory, Penny.
The title of this episode "Brothers & Sisters" was a title of a TV series that this show's producer Greg Berlanti also produced.
Sharon Stone joins the cast for the remainder of the series as Cassie's mother. Kaley Cuoco was very excited to learn that she would be working with a Hollywood icon.