Although they have filed for divorce, this episode was directed by Bill Hader's wife, Maggie Carey.
The photo shown of Judd Hirsch and Gene Cousineau, played by Henry Winkler, was an actual real world photo of Judd Hirsch and Henry Winkler.
The army coat Sally wears in the scene where she practices her lines with her agent is similar to the one Robert De Niro wears in Taxi Driver (1976), a film that inspired the idea for this show.
With 0.511 million viewers, this was the least watched episode of the first season.