The second of three times that Tyrion tries to tell his story of bringing a jackass and a honeycomb into a brothel. His first attempt was part of his "confession" to Lysa in A Golden Crown (2011), and every time he is interrupted and never finishes the story. The joke is probably about a dwarf asking for a lady to lie with since his own wife has left him. When asked about the jackass and honeycomb, he tells about a genie granting him three wishes, so his first was to give his wife a home fit for a queen; the genie gave her a honeycomb. His second wish was for her to have the finest ass in the land, so the genie gave her a donkey. His third wish was for his "tool" to hang down past his knees, so the genie shrunk his legs and turned him into a dwarf.
Arya's mistreatment by the Waif while she was blind seems to have paid off, since she now uses the dark as an advantage to kill her opponent; the Waif apparently never learned to fight while blind, which was actually part of the Faceless Men's training in the novels. However, as the fight between Arya and the Waif takes place mostly off-screen, it led to a popular fan theory claiming that the Waif had in fact killed Arya and stolen her face, and had been masquerading as Arya since then. The theory even came to the attention of the show's producers, who had the Waif's actress Faye Marsay come to set in full costume during the last season while paparazzi were present, to further stoke the theory.
This episode was both Peter Dinklage's and Maisie Williams's submissions in the supporting acting categories for drama series in the 2016 Emmy Awards- as Dinklage's sixth nomination for the show and Williams' first nomination in her career.
The episode won an Emmy Award for outstanding production design for a narrative contemporary or fantasy program (one hour or more).