- Meg and Chris did not have any lines in this episode.
- This is the first episode in which Fouad appears. His name is not mentioned at first, he's referred to by Peter as "that foreign guy at work who helped me understand sarcasm."
- This is the second episode featuring Stewie’s show business partner Olivia, after “From Method to Madness.” Her last name is revealed to be Fuller.
- Brian’s comment about black men to Stewie is a running joke on the show, suggesting that Brian’s father was a racist, first shown in “Don't Make Me Over,” and later in “Peter's Got Woods".
- Stewie’s troubled relationship with Olivia is a running joke about his ambiguous sexual orientation. This ambiguity is furthered during the closing credits scene.
- In a scene with Sandra Oh, Peter speaks to her slowly, under the misapprehension that she does not understand English.
- "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" by Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell plays during Autumn's Piano.
- "Tom Sawyer" by Rush plays during the Cheetos cutaway gag.
- During the advertisement for a compilation of 1980s television punchlines, Howard Hesseman provides a testimonial in exchange for cannabis.
- Stewie relates that he was once roommates with Q*bert.
- Peter claims that he was the original Pretty Woman. A cutaway shows him, in a red dress, replacing Julia Roberts’ role opposite Richard Gere.
- The George and Ira Gershwin piece “Someone to Watch over Me” plays over the scene under the suspension bridge.
- Victor played a dead baby on the show CSI: Miami.
- In the commentary, it is mentioned that Olivia is never seen dying. She returned in "The Boys in the Band".
- In the storyboard for the episode on the volume 5 DVD it is revealed that originally Stewie was to fall for one of Jillian's friends, so he makes a man suit. He enjoys it until he discovers she has a three year old, and she wants more children. The cutaway gags involving Uma Thurman in "Pulp Fiction" & two guys typing screenplays at Starbucks were supposed to be in this episode. However, when the episode was re-written in order to work Olivia into the plot, the two cutaways were then shown later in "Bill and Peter's Bogus Journey". Fouad was originally supposed to have a beard. The scene when Stewie sees Quagmire struggling with a woman, Quagmire was originally wearing an Egyptian Pharaoh hat. There was originally going to be a scene with a trailer for a movie called "Kill Everything" directed by Michael Bay. The movie was a reference to the intense amounts of explosions and killings in Michael Bay movies as opposed to developed storylines.
- In the animatics, Steel Vaginas has two scenes that are not in the episode:
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