American University's campus was digitally altered to create the show's fictional University, Brightman-Willis College of the Arts.
While filming the scenes between Kevin and his friends outside, a helicopter circled above the set, then landed in an adjacent property to tend to an emergency situation at a soccer game. This shut down production for over an hour.
Erik Cieslewicz: [Opening Mirror Talk] The main character, Kevin talks to himself in his computer monitor in the opening scene. Mikel and Ireland, the main characters in Microcosm (2008), also talk to themselves in a mirror in the opening scene.