The real Kenny Rogers Roasters restaurant chain disliked this episode and claimed the scene where Jerry (Jerry Seinfeld) covers everyone's food with rat fur would be bad publicity. In the end Kenny Rogers himself supported the episode as it was excellent free publicity, and the restaurant supplied the cast & crew with a catered dinner.
Jerry's (Jerry Seinfeld) usual Superman statue that lives on his bookshelf is replaced with Kramer's (Michael Richards) fusilli Jerry statue in this episode. The fusilli Jerry statue was first seen in episode 6:20, "The Fusilli Jerry."
In the scene where Elaine visits Peterman in Burma, Peterman yells something in gibberish at someone in the room to get them to leave. The person is preparing a pineapple, which is a reference to when Peterman had his breakdown in The Foundation (1996) when he asks where his pineapple is before leaving.
The scene in which Elaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) travels to Burma to get Mr. Peterman (John O'Hurley) to sign for the sable hat she purchased for George (Jason Alexander) is a parody of the classic film Apocalypse Now (1979), in which the character Willard (Martin Sheen) is sent into the jungle to terminate the command of the mad Col. Kurtz (Marlon Brando). In the last scene with Elaine and Peterman, who whispers "the horror...the horror" when she shows him her "urban sombrero" in the Peterman catalog. "The horror...the horror" is the last phrase uttered by Kurtz when he is being killed by Willard. Peterman also uses the line "you're an errand girl sent by grocery clerks to collect a bill." Marlon Brando says this same line (but with "boy" instead of "girl") to Martin Sheen in Apocalypse Now.
Due to Elaine's (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) getting caught over her misuse of the corporate account, she says she's "going down like Nixon." She later asks if she can fire the accountant who is pursuing her case. This act parallels Richard Nixon's firing of Archibald Cox, the prosecutor who was pursuing Nixon over Watergate.