The tye-dye shirt Phoebe wears is a Grateful Dead Lithuanian basketball shirt. In 1992, Lithuania, newly independent from the Soviet Union, did not have enough funds to send its basketball team to the Olympics. The Grateful Dead heard about this and took it upon themselves to raise the money to get them to the Olympics. In thanks, the Lithuanian basketball team sported tye-dye jerseys. They went on to win the bronze in Barcelona.
When Joey is talking to Ross and Chandler in the coffee shop about The Shining, he references the twins in the hallway, however they do not appear in the book.
One of the video boxes seen in the video store is Beauty and the Beast (1991), in which the Beast is voiced by Robby Benson, who also directed this episode.
Richard (Tom Selleck) is without his iconic mustache because he had shaved it off for the movie In & Out (1997).
While the books Rachel and Joey are reading are a part of the storyline, Ross is seen reading a book in Central Perk. Rachel and Joey agree to read each other's favorite books. Rachel reads "The Shining" by Stephen King and Joey reads "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott. The book Ross is reading is "Race: How Blacks & Whites Think & Feel About the American Obsession" by Studs Terkel.