Raj says his friends may know his cousin Sanjay as Dave from AT&T Customer Service. Dave was the original name for the character before Kunal Nayyar was cast.
Sheldon suggests that Raj can still make a life for himself "wandering the high seas as a stateless pirate". Kunal Nayyar, who plays Raj, would later voice a pirate in Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012).
This episode was watched by 13.07 million people with a rating of 5.0 (adults 18-49).
When Raj says, "Beefaroni. I think I'll miss you most of all," he is copying the last words that Dorothy says to the Scarecrow just before she leaves Oz for Kansas in "The Wizard of Oz".