Bryan Cranston was known to enjoy doing his own stunts. After one of the show's writers asked jokingly whether he would be willing to wear a suit of live bees Cranston said he would, so the script for this episode was written around this. He ended up covered in 10,000 bees, and only got stung once.
At the beginning of the episode, the boys are scrambling to find quarters to play an arcade game. The name of the game is "War: Final Assault" and was very unusual at the time because it used buttons for movement and the joystick to aim. This layout was the opposite of most arcade games but is very similar to how PC gaming works nowadays (with a keyboard for movement and a mouse for aiming).