Tucker Cawley, the writer of this episode, had an experience very similar to Ray and Debra's where he and his wife had a passive-aggressive fight about who would put away a suitcase.
Voted the fourth favorite episode of the entire series by the fans, and was rerun on March 7, 2005, as part of the events leading up to the series finale.
The episode won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series.