Before launching into Hymn 17 as Mrs. Kim requests, Dave plays the main riff from "The Man who Sold the World" by David Bowie.
In the opening scene Lorelai and Rory are watching the 1975 documentary Grey Gardens (1975), about a mother and daughter both named Edith Beale, paternal aunt and cousin to Jackie Kennedy. The family had been wealthy but fell into decline, and came to the attention of the filmmakers after Jackie and her sister agreed to help renovate the Grey Gardens mansion to keep it from being condemned.
In the opening scene Lorelai and Rory are watching the 1975 documentary Grey Gardens. It's about a mother and daughter both named Edith Beale, paternal aunt and cousin to Jackie Kennedy. This nitros the fact Lorelei and Rory are mother and daughter with the same name
Michael Des Barres appears in this episode as Claude Clemenceau. He starred regularly on MacGyver (1985) for seven seasons as MacGyver's nemesis, Murdoc. Jared Padalecki portrayed MacGyver's nephew, Clay MacGyver, in an unaired pilot for Young MacGyver (2003).