Coach mentions Rosie McGonagle for the second time this season.
This episode's title is taken from a line of a poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. "Elizabeth Barrett Browning" is also the name of Diane's deceased cat that is central to the plot of this episode.
After Marshall says the Celtics will lose, they switch cameras you see the pendant light in the background swinging. The man must have hit it while sitting in the booth.
Diane quotes Socrates "The unexamined life is not worth living", but does not mention where the quote is from.