This episode won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Multi-Camera Picture Editing for a Series.
Maris makes only two onscreen "appearances." Once in Episode 5.6, "Voyage of the Damned (1997)," when her shadow is seen through a shower curtain (she is spoken to but makes no reply). And again in this episode, where she appears in Niles' (David Hyde Pierce) memory, almost completely covered by bandages after plastic surgery.
The comic book that Martin (John Mahoney) brings to Niles (David Hyde Pierce) (in the present day) is "Archie Giant Series Magazine #183: The World of Jughead" (cover-dated February 1971).
Martin says he thinks that they stopped making Marathon candy bars in the '80s. Indeed, the last Marathon candy bar was made in 1981. Marathon then became Snickers.
The title of this episode Is a play on the title of E. M. Forster's 1908 novel "A Room with a View." A movie version was released in 1985.