Director/co-producer James Burrows has an unbilled cameo as one of the judges.
Woody says that the name of one of the judges is David Murphy. This was also the name of his character in the film "Indecent Proposal."
The Mazda MX-5 Miata offered as a prize in the Miss Boston Barmaid contest first went on sale just two years earlier, and was so desirable that it not only received Automobile Magazine's Automobile of the Year award for 1990, but also sold out its entire first shipment before a single car had reached North American showrooms.
Norm's Total Coat 9000 is actually a Wagner SprayTech model 330 Power Painting System. It's shown in its real packaging, but with the real brand name covered by a yellow bar bearing the fictitious name. Although Norm claims it was invented by the Japanese, it was actually developed in-house in the late 1980s by Minnesota-based Wagner SprayTech, a division of Germany's Wagner Group.