This is the first episode in the anime in which the fourth wall is broken. At the beginning of the episode, Brock breaks up an argument between Ash and Misty by commenting that they're running late and have to start the show.
To date, this episode is the only time in which Brock falls for a girl who is visibly younger than himself and Ash explicitly falls for a girl at all.
This is one of the few episodes that mention a real-life place, when Brock talks about French crepes in a French accent, causing Misty go into a romantic daydream of her sitting in France.
Jessie and James are revealed to have been flunked out of the Pokemon Tech School in the past.
The types of weather mentioned by the announcer in this episode were both later introduced in the games: fog and snow.