Scooter had already been featured in the first, second and fourth episodes. This one is his formal introduction.
The first episode where Frank Oz is Miss Piggy's sole performer.
In late February, 2021, this episode became one of 18 Muppet Shows to get a content warning on Disney+, for "negative depictions and/or mistreatment of people or cultures".
Part of the "New Go-Fer" backstage plot was included in "The Muppet Show Book", published by Harry N. Abrams, Inc in 1978, in which the sequence was entirely illustrated by Tudor Banus. However, in this version, Scooter says that his uncle's favorite act is Mahna Mahna and the two Snowths (from Juliet Prowse (1977)), instead of the Danceros in order to lead into the next segment in the book.
Jim Nabors sang the song Thank God I'm a Country Boy, a famous standard of John Denvers'. Denver wouldn't appear until the shows fourth season premiere.