The restaurant where Tony and Pussy eat at the episode's end is the actual Duke's Stockyard Inn in New Jersey, an Irish bar. This venue seems to stand as silent, implied defiance by Tony of the warning he'd earlier heard from Chris in his near-death vision/dream, about an Irish bar.
This episode features the only appearance of Nancy Cassaro as Christopher's mother Joanne Moltisanti (née Blundetto), who would be played by Marianne Leone in future episodes beginning with the Season 4 premiere For All Debts Public and Private (2002) and for the remainder of the series.
Though usually the show features just diegetic musics and songs, in this episode there's a massive use of Otis Redding's "My Lover's Prayer" as a non-diegetic theme.
This episode is a first for two "Sopranos" regulars: the first of five episodes written by actor Michael Imperioli, as well as the first of four directed by Henry Bronchtein, primarily a first or second assistant director on almost every program in the series.
Matthew Bevilaqua admits that he and his partner shot Christopher Moltisanti "on spec," to please Richie Aprile. Chris had abused Richie's niece, Adriana. This same "on spec" conspiracy came up on "The Rockford Files" in "The Jersey Bounce," written by David Chase. Two Jersey boys murder a woman's abusive boyfriend, in a failed attempt to please her mobster uncle.