In her 2011 autobiography "Bossypants," Tina Fey recounts how difficult it was to schedule a date on which Oprah Winfrey was available to shoot her scenes. It was finally set for Saturday, September 13, 2008 which happened to coincide with the season premiere of Michael Phelps/Lil' Wayne (2008), for which Fey was asked to return to impersonate Sarah Palin for the first time. Furthermore, Fey was also busy organizing her daughter Alice's third birthday party for the day after, Sunday, September 14, 2008.
On June 22, 2020, NBCUniversal announced this would be one of four episodes of 30 Rock pulled from streaming services and syndication due to the use of black face.
Frank's trucker hat reads "alien abductee."