When Sipowicz asks Danny if he follows the Mets, he says "The Mets are on strike." This dates filming to at most five months before airing, as the Major League Baseball strike referenced by the script didn't start until mid-August 1994. The strike actually continued until some four months after the episode first aired, ending in April 1995 as the longest stoppage in MLB history. Almost a thousand games were canceled, and at the time, it was also the longest stoppage for any major league sport in the US or Canada.
The title "Don We Now Our Gay Apparel" comes from the Christmas Song "Deck the Halls". This line is in a variant version of the song introduced in 1877. The variant removed the original songs references to drinking.