The technique of using a montage of clips from the previous episode, abandoned after the episode "Deep Freeze", is used here for the final time in the series.
In the court room scene, reference is made to a District Attorney Jefferson Hamfurter. The name was a spoof of District Attorney Hamilton Burger, a character from the Perry Mason literary and TV series.
The character of Ballpoint Baxter is played by writer Stanley Ralph Ross, whose nickname is "Ballpoint". Ross asked the producers if he could be on the show, but they gave him no lines.
The actor who played the judge, Voltaire Perkins, was best known for playing the judge in the daily afternoon "reality series" Divorce Court for many years.