It won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Graphic Design and Title Sequences.
Carla says Derek was telling a story about getting drunk with Anaïs Nin. Nin was a unconventional poet who died in 1977.
In this episode Sam (Ted Danson) feels inferior to his brother, Ted Danson later starred in The Good Place where one of the long term sub plots revolves around one of the characters feeling inferior to her sister.