Much time was spent during the production cycle by Matt Stone and Bill Hader educating Trey Parker about Yo Gabba Gabba! because Parker had little knowledge on the subject.
Parker and Stone reveal on the DVD commentary for this episode that Intellilink was originally only directly spoofing Crestron, a real product, identical to Intellilink, that Parker and Stone had experienced problems with in the past. They were glad that they could spoof Obamacare as well because they thought not a lot of people would know what Crestron actually was, calling it a "rich people problem".
The name of the Canadian health minister's friend is identified as "Fancy Fwend" only in the script. His name is not revealed in the episode itself.
Intellilink is a direct parody of the internet system Creston, a real product that both Matt Stone and Trey Parker used.
Heavily based on Miley Cyrus's makeover as a highly sexualized performer, and her VMA duet with Robin Thicke, who is of Canadian background (like Ike Broflovski).