When the writers couldn't come up with a punchline for Hyman to say, to express his awe about sliced bread, Brittany Curran (Fen), who was walking around on set at the time with a bag of soup, came up with his line, "it's the best thing since... I don't know what" on the spot. They shot it, loved it and then kept it in.
Ember's hatred of pickles came about because of writer, David Reed's real life disdain for the foodstuff and wrote it in.
At 26:00 as the gang discuss "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade", a variation of that film's theme song is faintly heard.
When sliced bread was introduced, it was marketed as the best thing since wrapped bread - the invention which helped protect bread from going stale or moldy.
This story's singular title "Be the Hyman" evolves into its 'plural' form "Be the Hymen", as in understanding a barrier to virginity in order to overcome it.