Donald Glover, then a writer on the series, has a cameo as the gay kid in the audience at Tracy's high school. He was a last-minute substitute for an actor who did not show and improvised his memorable one-liner ("Who told?!").
Jack Donaghy confronts Elvis Costello on his real identity, referring to him as "international art thief Declan MacManus." Declan MacManus is Elvis Costello's real name.
The usual title card for Little Stranger, Inc. (Tina Fey's production company) at the end of this episode was replaced by a 1986 photo of Fey and her brother, Peter Fey, meeting Elvis Costello. Tina Fey, then 16, lined up after a concert outside the Tower Theater in Upper Darby Pa to meet Costello alongside her brother, a huge fan who in 2009 estimated he had seen Costello in concert "maybe 80 times."
The singers got "Kidney Now" on the first take. The song was written in sections.
Liz states "He thinks he deserves a vajajay upgrade. He doesn't. He's not Tom Brady." Tina Fey appeared in classic the "Sexual Harassment and You" skit with Tom Brady in which Tina Fey's character is accepting of Tom Brady's advances over another coworker's. Tom Brady/Beck (2005)