Brooke Shields, Tori Spelling, and Reese Witherspoon were all offered the role of Paula, but turned it down.
(at around 51 mins) The minor league baseball game Tripp and Paula attend is a New Orleans Zephyrs home game.
Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew McConaughey appeared in Sex And the City episode, Escape from New York (2000), where McConaughey played himself.