The episode won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Limited Series or Movie.
David Schwimmer (Robert Kardashian) and Ken Lerner (Howard Weizmann) previously worked together on "Friends." Lerner appeared as the boring professor that Ross and Charlie ditch in Season 9 Episode 20.
This episode concludes with the song "I Shall Be Released," written by Bob Dylan, performed by Nina Simone. Courtney B. Vance (Johnnie Cochran) also appears in an episode of the ABC series "Scandal" (Season 4, Episode 14) in which the episode ends with a rendition of "I Shall Be Released"