The filming location for Mikki's apartment was also featured in the movie "Saw (2004)", and as Christopher Walken's apartment in Steven Spielberg's "Catch Me If You Can (2002)."
What you see here is not real poison blowfish, but the skin of Yellowtail. It was prepared by Kenji Jampathong, the same private sushi chef who procured the Loch Etive Trout for Murch's party in the pilot.
Hobbes' 'Weird Al' Yankovic 'Off The Deep End' t-shirt belongs to our Locations Manager, David B. Lyons. It was purchased at a concert in Grand Rapids, MI in 1991.
The character Larry Cavanaugh was named after a Des Moines art gallery that was once visited frequently by Aaron Hilliard, the writer of this episode and an Iowa native.
Sharron's art was inspired by female painters Sophie Jodoin, Hanneline Rogeberg, and Jenny Saville.