Lex Luthor and Arianna Carlin were married on October 8, 1984.
The edition of the Daily Planet that Lois uses to cover the advertisement for Arianna Carlin's column contains the headline "Fruit Fly Spraying." This newspaper was a prop originally created for Pheromone, My Lovely (1993).
This is Denise Crosby's first appearance as Dr. Gretchen Kelly.
Lois says, "Not everything a person does has some hidden meaning. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar." When Sigmund Freud arrived in New York a reporter asked if Freuds habitual cigar smoking was connected to his theories about phallic symbols. Freud said that sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.