Young Baelfire is recast with Brandon Spink as Dylan Schmid has aged too much for this flashback time period
When Emma kisses Hook, she finds that he tastes like Captain Morgan, a brand of rum.
The exterior shot of Granny's Diner in the evening, is a close-up version of stock footage from "Heroes and Villains".
The Wilhelm scream is a stock sound effect of a man screaming that has been used in hundreds of movies and television episodes.
Some scenes of the episode were filmed at the Deer Lake Park.