It is revealed that The New York Harmonic became The New York Phil Harmonic after Phil donated money to the organization.
Conversion of $8 million from 1991 to 2021 would be $15,573,931.
Bull's real name Nostradamus is mentioned.
Title came from the song "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone" by Motown songwriters Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong.
Night Court's writers loved to drop hidden references to celebrities in characters' names. In this show, Hank Shannon's (Bull's mom) crew mates are Doyle, Birnbach (sic) and Dane. Doyle-Dane-Bernbach was a well-known advertising agency, famous for its ad campaigns for Volkswagen, Avis rental cars, and Juan Valdez for the Colombian national coffee growers' cooperative. They are now Omnicom, after several mergers and acquisitions.