The Screaming Viking cocktail was inspired by this episode. While a number of variations of the drink exist, all include a cucumber.
Director James Burrows recalled Season 6 as containing the first scene between Sam and Rebecca at which the audience failed to laugh. Until Rebecca unintentionally fumbled and struggled so hard trying to work the door handle to get into her office that it produced outrageous laughter. That unplanned snafu helped Kirstie Alley's character emerge and flourish throughout the life of the series.
To answer the unanswered question by Frasier Crane in the episode, the quote "O Death in Life, the days that are no more" is from Alfred Lord Tennyson's poem, "Tears, Idle Tears".
The title of this episode is from Robert Louis Stevenson's 1890 poem "Requiem," part of which was also inscribed on his tombstone: "Home is the sailor, home from sea, / And the hunter home from the hill."
This is the only episode that shows the bar's "fourth wall" which can be seen in two shots, when the patrons drink their "screaming Viking" cocktails as Rebecca watches them from the office door.