The (fictional) play that is the subject of much discussion and consternation in this episode, "Cocksucker in Chains," is a parody of the real and highly controversial off-Broadway (and later Broadway) play "Slave Play" by Jeremy O. Harris. The incident in the episode in which a white woman interrupts a Q&A session after a performance by yelling that the play is racist against white people is a close reproduction of a very similar incident at a talkback for Slave Play (when a video of that incident went viral, the woman was dubbed "Talkback Tammy" in the media). Harris not only made it widely known that he loved this episode's version of his play and himself, he also live-tweeted the episode on its first airing, providing real-time commentary like "[Cocksucker in Chains is a] great title tbh"; "Love that they kept the spirit of blaxploitation iconography for the play"; "The Talkback Tammy scene is word for word!"; and "If they put one more ascot on this man [the playwright character who is the episode's stand-in for Harris] I will sue."