Features two songs from Stevie Wonder's "Songs in the Key of Life": "Summer Soft" and "Joy Inside My Tears."
One of the politicians in this episode has the surname 'Keating', which also is the surname of Annalise, the primary character in 'How to Get Away with Murder' (2014), another show created by Shonda Rhimes.
Brendan Hines (Gideon Wallace) and Megan Gallagher (Stacy Keating) would go on to star in Suits (2011) as recurring characters important to a main character, Rachel Zane (played by Meghan Markle). Brendan played Logan Sanders, the married man Rachel had an affair with and Megan as Laura Zane, Rachels mother.