Morgan Fairchild and Christina Pickles both appear in this episode. The two would also play main characters mothers on the sitcom Friends.
This episode marks the introduction of the character Andrea Thorpe, played by Morgan Fairchild. She appeared in four episodes in total.
As she is trying to get Barry out the door, Cybill Sheridan demurs his romantic advances, but offers to appear in the hypothetical gay TV show that Barry pitched to Kevin's scandalized traditional parents. Cybill Shepherd would later appear in 19 episodes of The L Word as the mother of Clementine Ford's character, Shepherd's real-life daughter (who appears in the last two episodes of Cybill).