This episode won the award for Best Episodic Comedy at the 1996 Writers Guild of America Awards.
When Kramer (Michael Richards) is giving movie listings advice in his own apartment you can see pasta models on the shelf behind him. Just like the one he gave Jerry (Jerry Seinfeld) in Series 6 episode 20, The Fusilli Jerry (1995).
Danny Hoch was originally cast as Ramon, the Pool Guy, but objected to using a Latin accent as it would be demeaning to Latinos. Hoch argued that many talented, Latino actors were offered only stereotypical roles and now he, a non-Latino, was being asked to do such work. Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David were not amused and told him the shooting of the episode was postponed while they cast his replacement, and that he could fly back to New York on his own dime. He described this incident in his one-man show Jails, Hospitals & Hip-Hop (2000). Ironically, his replacement, Carlos Jacott, played the character without a Latin accent.
While George (Jason Alexander) in standing in front of the movie screen showing a film called Chunnel, the film on the screen is The American President (1995) starring Michael Douglas.
When George (Jason Alexander) is yelling for Susan (Heidi Swedberg), Elaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), George (Jason Alexander) and Jerry (Jerry Seinfeld), while standing in front of the film, it's possible to hear Larry David narrating the movie.