It won 2 Emmy Awards for Outstanding Film Editing for a Series and Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series.
Fred Dryer, who plays Dave, was a finalist for the role of Sam.
Cliff calls Gandhi a "fine piece of cinematic art." John Ratzenberger has a small role in Gandhi as a lieutenant in the British army.
Dave says that the brunette woman he brings to see Sam is named DeDe. Fred Dryer, the actor, starred in Hunter as a detective whose partner was a brunette woman named DeDe.
Sam tells Diane that he said no to a woman named DeDe in favor of her; Shelley Long (Diane) would go on to play a character named DeDe on Modern Family--ironically, a divorced woman whose ex-husband remarried a younger woman.