The "Reign of Terror" refers to a period during the French Revolution after the First French Republic was established in which multiple massacres and public executions occurred in response to revolutionary fervor, anti-clerical sentiment, and frivolous accusations of treason by Maximilien Robespierre and his Committee of Public Safety. Between June 1793 and the end of July 1794, there were 16,594 official death sentences in France, of which 2,639 were in Paris.
This episode takes place in Paris, France on October 8, 1793 and in Arizona in 1968.
The title refers to a campaign during the French Revolution that was known historically as the Reign of Terror.
Unlike past episodes, Doug and Tony's regular clothes do not reappear before they disappear.