The puffy shirt from this episode is now part of the collection of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.
Jerry Seinfeld flew to New York to film his scenes with Bryant Gumbel. Seinfeld was usually filmed in California.
The first network appearance of Jerry Stiller as Frank Costanza. Later, for continuity sake in syndication, Jerry Stiller re-shot the scenes featuring his character in the previous season four episode The Handicap Spot (1993).
Larry David came up with the idea to use the shirt, and cites this episode as one of his favorites in the series.
This episode marks the utterance of Jerry's (Jerry Seinfeld) famous line "But I don't wanna be a pirate!" It was later modified in several subsequent episodes ("I don't wanna be a cowboy!" in The Mom and Pop Store (1994); "I don't wanna be Switzerland!" in The Label Maker (1995); and "I don't wanna be a 32!" (in pants size) in The Sponge (1995)).
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