Nevitt's club is the same building as the hotel in Season 2's "The Farnsworth Strategem."
The title of this episode refers to Tom Stoppard's famous play "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead," about the imagined exploits of two minor characters from Shakespeare's "Hamlet."
Jim mentions hearing that birds eat 40 times their body weight every day. No existing bird can eat nearly that much. Most birds eat approximately 25-35% of their body weight each day depending on the species, with hummingbirds eating 100% of their body weight each day.
The title of this episode is inspired by Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two minor but pivotal characters in Shakespeare's Hamlet.
Guest star Robin Gammell fathered a child with previous semi-regular Gretchen Corbett.