Casey and Dan read a list of the crew members to acknowledge their work on the show. All the names appear to be actual crew members, including: Janet Ashikaga, Editor; Maureen Gates, Wardrobe; Marie Del Prete, makeup artist; Linda D. Flowers, hair stylist.
A subplot of this episode is the team recognizing the support staff who help run the show. Many of the names they read (including the costumers mentioned earlier in the episode) are real crew members.
This episode includes the only appearance in this series by Janel Moloney, who went on to play an important regular role in The West Wing (1999); Aaron Sorkin created and wrote both shows. Moloney's character here is an assistant wardrobe staffer who takes the risky step of criticizing fictional "Sports Night" co-host Casey McCall for not giving the Wardrobe Supervisor public recognition for, among other things, knowing what kind of necktie won't cause visual problems on television. In the same vein, the first line in "The West Wing" of her character Donna Moss (in Pilot (1999)) is a criticism of a necktie that Donna's boss wore on television. She says she's told him "a zillion times" that he shouldn't wear that tie on television because it "bleeds" (that is, its colors appear smeared and blurred together).