Mimi Kuzyk and Ken Olin join the regular cast.
Robert Hirschfeld gets promoted to series regular from costar with this episode.
Jill Eikenberry and Michael Tucker, who play the tourist couple of Sarah and Gabe Fimple, are married in real life. They later went on to play a husband and wife team as lawyers on LA Law for eight years starting two years later in 1986. L.A. Law was also a Steven Bochco production.
This is the first use of the now famous line "Let's do it to them before they do it to us" from Sgt; Stan Jablonski at the end of the morning roll call.
Title makes a pun on the surname of new Hill Street member Patsy Mayo and the old burger-ordering instructions "hold the mayo"/"hold the pickle."