The second song Bea Arthur sings in this episode is "Hard Hearted Hannah". She also sang this song on an episode in season 2 of her other very successful TV series "Maude".
This was Rue McClanahan's favorite episode of the series.
When one of the mourners at Sophia's wake goes into hysterics asking how Sophia died, Blanche thinks she's doing an impersonation of Claus von Bülow. von Bülow was a Danish born socialite who was arrested in 1979 for the attempted murder of his wife, Sunny von Bülow, by putting her in a coma with an overdose of insulin.
Crew member Kent Zbornak makes a small cameo as the man who's neck Blanche accidentally wraps the cord of her microphone around while singing. Zbornak's last name was borrowed for Dorothy's on the series.
Don the piano player in this episode was also Rose and Miles' skydiving instructor in a previous episode.