Jerry's new girlfriend Valerie (Lauren Graham) uses her speed-dial as a relationship barometer. After a bad date, she moves Jerry from 7 to 9. But when the numbers are shown, slot 7 has always been 'Jane,' and Jerry was not erased and replaced. The evidence shows that they wrote Jerry on 9, erased it, and re-wrote it.
Desiccants are actually non-toxic. The packet says 'do not eat' because they are not food. The clothes will continue to last without them. The desiccants don't make the clothes last longer; in fact, the desiccants themselves don't last 5 years.
When George meets with the Mets executives, they tell him they can't hire him as head of scouting while he's still under contract with the Yankees, which he intuits means he has to get himself fired. Major League Baseball's tampering rules only apply to players, managers, coaches, and umpires, not low-level front-office personnel like George.
At the beginning, the stores 'Puta Mayo' and 'Cinco de Mayo' are mentioned, along with the fact that the stores are run by Mayans. However, when Kramer enters Puta Mayo to sabotage it, he lies that he is a wealthy industrialist looking to set up a silver mine in the mountains of Peru, and he would like to get the feel of the native people. But the Mayans were never known to inhabit Peru. The Incas predominantly inhabited Peru until the Spanish conquest in the 16th century.
The Steinbrenner character is putting on Lou Gehrig's pants and wonders if his ALS might be contagious, as he can't be flipping and flopping all over. ALS does the exact opposite, shutting down the muscles one by one until death occurs.
In the opener, Elaine wants to storm out of the store, and gets stopped because the door only opens inward. As this is an egress door in an occupied commercial building, it would have to swing outwards in accordance with the International Building Code.
Kramer and Newman say their party is November 1st. A New Year's Eve party would be on December 31.
Jerry tells Newman that the millennium starts on January 1, 2001 and that his party is a year late. However, Newman's party is on January 1, 2000. Jerry should have said that Newman's party is a year too soon.