Brighton comments of how he smoked a cigarette but did not inhale. This is a reference to Bill Clinton's answer when asked if he had ever smoked marijuana.
Ann Morgan Guilbert's first appearance as 'Grandma Yetta' (Yetta Rosenberg Jones). Guilbert was credited in 56 episodes.
Fran references Rebecca De Mornay as the "worst nanny in the world". De Mornay played the evil nanny 'Peyton Flanders' in The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1992), where Madeline Zima (Grace) played 'Emma Bartel', one of the children under her care.
Even though she played Renée Taylor's (Sylvia Fine) mother, Ann Morgan Guilbert (Grandma Yetta) was only 4 ½ years older than Taylor.
The title comes from the song "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" written by Jerome Kern and lyricist Otto A. Harbach for their 1933 operetta 'Roberta'.