The episode is reminiscent of the movie 12 Angry Men (1957), in which Jack Klugman plays a juror on a panel during a supposedly open-and-shut case. Like Henry Fonda, the lone holdout who votes not guilty, Tony Randall, does the same thing, eventually winning everyone over to his side.
Oscar tells Felix he is a sportswriter with The New York Times, although later on and through the run of the show, he works for the fictional New York Herald.
Oscar and Felix claim to have met while serving on the jury. However, this backstory will be contradicted several times throughout the series, including in the opening narration.
In this episode, Tony Randall and Barney Martin are members of a jury. A few years later, they co-starred on The Tony Randall Show (1976), as Judge Walter Franklin and his clerk Jack Terwilliger.
The soundtrack references the song "Getting To Know You" from the musical The King and I, as Oscar and Felix attempt to find something they have in common.