This is the fourth and final episode in which Will Friedle (Eric Matthews) does not appear. The others are Sixteen Candles and Four-Hundred-Pound Men (1996), Heartbreak Cory (1998) and If You Can't Be with the One You Love... (1998).
Jonathan Jackson's elder brother Richard Lee Jackson played Kenny in And Then There Was Shawn (1998) only three episodes earlier.
Cory says to Shawn: "Oh, I'm a clown to you, huh? Am I here to amuse you?" an apparent reference to Joe Pesci in Goodfellas.