Loretta Swit met her husband, Dennis Holahan while filming this episode, where their characters are romantically involved. Interestingly, his last name, Holahan, is phonetically very similar to her character's last name, Houlihan.
Hawkeye mentions that Joseph Stalin has recently died. Stalin died on March 5, 1953.
Guest star David Packer later appeared in Almost Heroes (1998), as another character who, through misfortune, loses a leg.
Both Harry Morgan's final directorial credit on M*A*S*H and in his career.
The title of this episode was used as a subtitle for an article in MAD Magazine in April 1963, whose main title was "East Side Story," parodying Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim's "West Side Story" and the principals of the United Nations.