Kate Winslet tells Andy (Ricky Gervais) in one scene that the key to winning an Oscar is to do a Holocaust film. Less than four years later, she would go on to win her first Academy Award playing an Auschwitz guard in The Reader (2008), a post-Holocaust drama.
Kate Winslet says she will be "polishing her husband's Oscar". Kate's husband at the time was Sam Mendes and he won an Oscar for directing American Beauty (1999).
Between the shooting and the airing of the episode, Kate Winslet was nominated for an Oscar for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004). Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant joked about how her jokes in the episode would be ruined if she actually won, which she didn't.