John Turturro was the celebrity caller in this episode. He plays Grant, who calls in because his grandmother died two weeks earlier and he never told her how much she meant to him.
The title is from the 1976 song "Don't Go Breaking My Heart," a duet sung by Elton John and Kiki Dee and written by Elton John and Bernie Taupin.
During the episode when Martin says, "Like sands through an hour glass, so are the days of our lives." Martin, of course, is quoting the opening of the day time soap opera "Days Of Our Lives," Currently [sic] only one of two surviving day-time soap operas. The other being, of course, "The Young And The Restless."
Niles mentions "The Young and The Restlesss."' "The Young and The Restless" is a day-time soap opera, as Frasier had stated in the Episode With A Soothing Theme to Which Frasier did not state in the Episode. [sic] But also, it is one of only two surviving day-time soap operas to this day [sic] -- the other being "Days of Our Lives."