Much of Denise's coming out story came from Lena Waithe's life. She cowrote this episode with Aziz Ansari.
The episode won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series.
The "Magic Eye" picture which Dev says he can't see a dolphin in actually shows an image of "I <3 You" upside down.
The movie the characters are shown watching is Spike Lee's film "Do the Right Thing," a pivotal social commentary on race relations in the late 1980s.