Thomas Sanders, Joan S. and their team hired Adam Kreutinger to build the Sanders Sides puppets featured on the episode, based on designs drawn by Joan. They're both credited simply as "artists". When Thomas and Joan realized they wouldn't be able to master puppetry in the short time they had to film the episode, they hired expert puppeteer Nate Begle who manipulated the puppets while Thomas gave voice to them. Begle is credited as "Featured Performer".
In the final segment, where several puppets appear in the same scene, at first Thomas tried to manipulate the Patton paper-bag puppet, but it didn't come out right as, as Nate Begle told him, his hands were "too thick" for the puppet, and the mouth protruded a bit, causing it to look bad on camera. Puppets in the final segments were manipulated by Talyn, Kenny Armstrong, AJ Hentges and Joan. Talyn, Kenny and AJ are credited as "Special Thanks".
In the final segment, where several puppets appear in the same scene, at first Thomas tried to manipulate the Patton paper-bag puppet, but it didn't come out right as, as Nate Begle told him, his hands were "too thick" for the puppet, and the mouth protruded a bit, causing it to look bad on camera. Puppets in the final segments were manipulated by Talyn, Kenny Armstrong, AJ Hentges and Joan. Talyn, Kenny and AJ are credited as "Special Thanks".
Thomas filmed a full version of the scenes with the puppets acting the scenes himself in the flesh as he would normally do, albeit without costume or makeup, then edited it all as if it was for the real episode, albeit in a rough montage that sometimes combined shots filmed in three different filming sessions all blended together, sometimes having Thomas, dressed as the character Thomas, say some lines of other characters that were added later to the script. This footage would serve as a reference for the puppetry which would be done in sync with it, and later the audio would be added in the final montage.
While Thomas Sanders and Joan S. were trying to film the scenes doing the puppetry themselves, they took exactly 101 takes, which took 131 minutes, to film only six lines of one puppet, and they looked so rigid that they found them unusable and not "camera ready". In desperation and fearing that the episode would have to be canceled as they found themselves unable to do it, Thomas and Joan asked Nate Begle, who had previously given them a crash course in puppetry, to help them and do the puppetry for the episode. Lucky for them, Begle was at the time in Orlando, Florida, working on Universal Orlando Resort, doing puppetry for "Halloween Horror Nights", which, as Orlando is less than a couple of hours away from the town of Gainesville, Florida, where the series is made, allowed Begle to come in just a couple of days. He came over and did a perfect version of all the lines for all the puppets in a single day, from 9 a.m. to around 10 p.m.
In 2019, Thomas Sanders, Joan S., Davi Decandia, Quil Darling and AJ Hentges received a nomination for a Streamy Award to best writing. The nomination was officially for the Thomas Sanders channel as a whole, but Thomas Sanders later confirmed that the nomination had been specifically given to the writing for this episode.
New record for the longest installment as of release, 38 minutes and 15 seconds. The previous record was on Can Lying Be Good? (2018) with 27 minutes and 19 seconds. Only if counting two part stories together, "Moving On" would be slightly longer with its two parts, Moving On Part 1: Exploring Nostalgia (2017) and Moving On Part 2: Dealing With a Breakup (2017), being together 38 minutes and 31 seconds, barely 16 seconds longer.