The Shower Scene Name of the episode pays homage to psycho
First episode which has only one end tag instead of two. The last scene lingers until fade to black and does not qualify as an end tag. Then, there is one end tag while the credits "roll".
Battle of the sitcoms: Fran Drescher & her writer husband had been "appropriating" Ellen sitcom's storylines, premises, gags and other jokes since their beginning. Ellen had had enough but did not say anything about the blatant plagiarsim: instead, she started lifting their (very rare) ideas. A few months prior, in A Fine Friendship (1995), there had been a gag about Fran taping some show over Brighton's birthday VHS cassette tape.