Both Allison Janney and Martin Sheen were born and raised in Dayton, OH. Rob Lowe was raised there as well having moved to the city as a small child. As a matter of fact, Lowe was friends with Sheen's sons Charlie Sheen and Emilo Estevez (Estevez being Sheen's real name).
This episode features the fewest members of the main cast to appear in an episode to this point in the series, at three. It is also the first episode of the entire series to not feature Martin Sheen as President Josiah Bartlet.
When C.J. first meets her father, he says he's feeling blue. The album he's playing in the background is 'Kind of Blue' by Miles Davis.
Allison Janney's character of C.J. Cregg returns to her hometown of Dayton, Ohio for her high school reunion. Janney's real-life hometown is Dayton, but in the episode, her character is stated as attending West Dayton High School. There is no West Dayton High School in Dayton, and the episode itself was actually filmed in Chicago. The producers originally wanted to shoot the episode in Dayton but found it more cost-effective to shoot in Chicago.
John Spencer appears in the background of one scene in the role of Leo McGarry, but he does not talk.