In the final scene at her place with Sam, Rebecca wears a University of Connecticut t-shirt. Rebecca having attended UConn was first established in The Last Angry Mailman (1987) in Season 6; later that season, she wore a UConn sweatshirt in Slumber Party Massacred (1988).
The title of the episode is a play on Days of Wine and Roses, a 1962 film that depicts the downward spiral of two average Americans who succumb to alcoholism and attempt to deal with their problems.