While Ash is in the booth wrestling with the centerfold coming out of a magazine, a-ha's 'Take On Me' can be heard. The music video for Take On Me also famously featured a magazine coming to life, with an arm reaching out of it.
The building used for exterior shots of the high school was a former psychiatric hospital called the Whau Lunatic Asylum.
This episode marks the first time in the franchise to have a few short scenes in manga style animation.
This was the first episode Arielle Carver-O'Neill (Brandy) and Lindsay Farris (Dalton) filmed.