Michael Manasseri (Jerry) would later star as Wyatt Donnelly in Weird Science (1994). Quantum Leap (1989) was parodied in Quantum Wyatt (1995), in which Wyatt leaps into several different people.
Arnold Watkins' parents were shot and killed by Leon Kanowsky in Rinker's Diner on Main Street in Latrobe, Pennsylvania in 1944 when Arnold was seven years old. He had gone out to the car and returned just in time to see Kanowsky turn the gun on himself. This is a reference to the origin story of Batman. Bruce Wayne witnessed the murder of his parents Thomas and Martha as a young child, which inspired him to become the Caped Crusader as an adult.
In the original history, Arnold Watkins and Jerry were killed when Arnold jumped on the bonnet of Jerry's car during the chicken race on October 8, 1956.
This episode takes place in North Falls, New York from October 8 to October 10, 1956 and in Stallion's Gate, New Mexico in 1999.
Arnold Watkins was born in 1937.