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- This is only the second episode where Nadine is mentioned by name. The first time was in the episode "Helga's Makeover".
- Phoebe's parents, Kyo Heyerdahl and Reba Heyerdahl, were voiced by George Takei and Jean Smart, respectively.
- The trophy was voiced by Carol Kane, who's probably best known for being Simka on Taxi and Allison Portchnik in Annie Hall.
- The face of the Emily Dickinson trophy is reminiscent of a henohenomoheji, where the features are drawn with Japanese hiragana characters.
- The sign in Phoebe's room says "CARPE UNUM", which means "seize the one" in Latin. It’s a play on the much more common Latin phrase "carpe diem," which means "seize the day."
- There is a painting or poster framed on Phoebe's wall of a meatball.
- This episode is similar to an episode in the TV series The Facts of Life, where Blair cheats on a poetry assignment by copying a poem by Emily Dickinson, and it ends up finishing in third place in a New York statewide poetry competition.
- Phoebe reveals in this episode that she was from Kentucky.
- Arnold speaks only one time in this episode.
- Phoebe has a poster in her room that says "Tacoma's Killer Whale Marine Park" this could be a reference to Tacoma, Washington's marine park.
- Her table lamp has a drawing of Mount Rushmore on it.
- In reality, the poem Phoebe steals isn’t an actual Emily Dickinson poem and was written by the show's writers.
Moral: don't cheat