This episode brought in over 20 million views, making it the most-watched episode of the entire series.
It won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series.
The opening scene, in which the characters frantically scramble to escape the Dunder Mifflin office due to what they believe is a fire, took about a day and a half to shoot. It took much longer than the average 45 minutes of shooting time for a scene of that length due to the amount of stunt work involved.
In 2019, a man in Arizona helped a man having a heart attack by remembering the CPR training shown in this episode.
The downloaded movie named "Mrs. Albert Hannaday" Pam, Jim, and Andy were watching together, featuring Jack Black, Jessica Alba, and Cloris Leachman, is not a real movie. It was made specifically for this episode.