Was to originally feature John Cleese reprising his Emmy Award winning role as Dr. Simon Finch-Royce from the episode Simon Says. However, Cleese became unavailable, and the part of Finch-Royce was rewritten as Dr. Crandall.
John McMartin (here portraying Dr. Lawrence Crandell) would go on to play alongside Kelsey Grammer again as fellow radio personality Fletcher Gray in And the Whimper Is... (1994).
This episode reunites Kirstie Alley and Fabiana Udenio who both appeared in Summer School(1987)
Lawrence Crandell stays at the Ritz Carlton in Boston. The exterior shot shows the original location. In 2003, the Ritz Carlton became Taj Boston.