Ray Romano's real-life brother appears in this episode as the golf course official who informs everyone of their tee time.
Robert says to Ray that he believes their dad will die before their mom saying "did you see the way he was eating that meat sandwich, I don't see him blowing out 100 candles" Less than two years after this episode aired in 2004, peter Boyle (Frank) passed away at age 71.
When Ray says, "Yeah, and we want you to back off!" and Frank responds, "Don't talk to your mother like that!", it appears in "40 Year-Old Virgin" while Andy is going through tapes in David's "Big Box-o-Porn."