The working title for the episode was "A Few Kind Words," which refers to something Tony's father used to say on his own birthday: he did not want presents, just a few kind words.
Another working title for this episode was "Chew The Fat." Tony says he wants to spend his weekend doing this instead of visiting Bobby and Janice. This title was actually listed in some newspaper channel guides on the episode's airdate.
The story Janice tells about her father, John Soprano, firing his gun through Livia Soprano's beehive hairdo was depicted in 2021's "The Many Saints of Newark."
The fully automatic AR-10 shown here is illegal for private citizens to own. Of the 9,900 units produced, all were supplied to the US Military. There is a semi-automatic version of the AR-10 that civilians can own, but that is not the type shown here.