This episode won an Emmy for Outstanding Writing of a Drama Series. The cast and crew were shocked, when the following year, writer Kater Gordon was abruptly dropped from the show despite her Emmy win. In 2017, she revealed that she had been sexually harassed by Matthew Weiner during her tenure on Mad Men (2007) and this was the reason for her sudden departure.
The episode won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series.
Action takes place from October 22, 1962, the day John F. Kennedy gave a televised address on the Cuba Missile Crisis, and the 2 days after.
In the hair salon Francine offers Betty a "Miltown" -stating that "It's the only thing keeping me from chewing my nails off." Miltown was one of many names given to the drug Meprobamate, a tranquilizer. Wallace laboratories named their version of the drug after the borough of Milltown, New Jersey. Meprobamate was also one of the first drugs to be widely advertised to the general public.
The man Betty meets in the bar is drinking an old fashioned. The same as Don's preferred cocktail.