The song the band rehearses throughout the episode and eventually performs at Amanda Pontell's reception is "Someday We'll Be Together." Although this was originally recorded by Bristol and Beavers in 1961, it is the 1969 cover version by Diana Ross & the Supremes that most are familiar with.

Stella: (to Sammy) I hold five hundred dollars in my hand. You will take this on consideration of the following... My little baby is marrying a Jew. I have no problem with this; they're very nice people. The five hundred dollars is for you to get the mail-order minister to slip in "Jesus" twice. I don't care when. If he wants to stub his toe and say, 'Jesus Christ!', I'll take it. But the man's a savior; he deserves a mention. You'll do this for me.

Ernesto refers to his pasta alla puttanesca as his "little whore", and says that that is what the name translates as. There is, however, no diminutive (indicator of smallness, such as the Italian suffixes -ino/-ina or -etto/-etta) in the name. It more literally translates as "pasta whore style", or loosely, "whore's pasta".