This episode premiered just four days after the 11th anniversary of the pilot episode of its parent series Good Morning, Miss Bliss (1987) making Dustin Diamond and Dennis Haskins having played the characters of Samuel 'Screech' Powers and Mr. Richard Belding for a consecutive 11 years.
This episode served as the series finale.
Nicky references the "Peanuts" character Snoopy. This episode first premiered on the 30th anniversary of A Boy Named Charlie Brown (1969), the first theatrical, feature-length Peanuts film.
The graduation song contains the verse "Our four years here have all become unraveled." Although, Maria Lopez is the only graduate who was a student at Bayside for that number of years, as Samantha Esteban (Maria) was in fact the only cast member whose tenure with the series was four years.