The two actors who play the counselors at the conversion camp, Jane Lynch and Andrew Rannells, are openly gay in real life.
In Grace's office, Tony sings "Mercy" and Grace comments that he is a good singer. Anthony Ramos, who plays Tony, is a Broadway actor who won a Grammy for his leading role in Hamilton (2020) as John Laurens / Philip Hamilton.
Behind the couple at the gay conversion camp is a picture of Former Vice President Mike Pence who is vocal non-supporter of the LGBTQ community.
The episode won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Multi-Camera Picture Editing for a Comedy Series.
The original run of "Will & Grace" also ran an episode that contained a comic take on so-called "conversion therapy, " a pseudoscience that purports to be able to turn gay people straight. In Girls, Interrupted (2000), Jack joins an ex-gay group because of his crush on its leader, Bill (Neil Patrick Harris). Both Harris and Andrew Rannells (who plays an ex-gay counselor in this episode) played Hedwig in the original Broadway production of the musical "Hedwig and the Angry Inch."