Guest actor Adam Arkin was nominated for a primetime Emmy for his guest role on this episode.
This episode has multiple celebrity callers. Allison Janney plays Phyllis, who calls in with a description of her missing cat, Jennifer Jason Leigh is Estelle, who calls in with a question for Bill Gates about multi-lingual user inferface add-ons. Bobby Short is Warrern, who calls in asking Bill Gates if he needs to make a boot disk when installing XP as an upgrade. And finally Joe (Larry Gelbart), who calls and explains how he understands how Frasier feels about losing his tape, as he had lost a valued gold cufflink a few years before and how he hopes that a listener who might find the cufflink will get it back to him.
Frasier's tape cabinet contains nowhere close to 2000 tapes. Each small section contains 12 tapes. Each of the cabinets 12 columns consists of 6 sections, and 11 columns are completely full. Column 12 contains 3 full sections, with section 1 missing one tape at the bottom. Frasier puts the "2000th" tape in the first slot in the fifth section. This means that in total, only 840 tapes occupy the cabinet.
This episode features two guest appearances by actors from the hit NBC drama The West Wing (1999); Adam Arkin and Allison Janney. Arkin played a psychiatrist on The West Wing.
The cassette that Frasier adds to the cabinet is the 840th tape in that cabinet.