During a 2022 interview with Lorraine Ali for the LA Times, Pamela Adlon singled out a part of this episode as a time when her real-life parenting experiences influenced storylines in the show: "like when Sam comes home from Chicago after she was on a plane that caught fire, there's like [a party in the house]. She goes upstairs, and Frankie's there. She's asks, 'Why are you here? There's like 40 people downstairs,' and Frankie's like, 'I have to read a play.' When Sam asks how much of it she's read already, Frankie says, 'Nothing.' So Sam's like, 'Jesus. I can't even begin to tell you about my day. The plane I was on . . ." But then Sam stops and says, 'OK, how about I read a chapter, you read a chapter?' And they read A Raisin in the Sun back and forth. And that was the end of the episode. [That came from my real life]. . . . It was late at night and my middle daughter, Odessa, hadn't read A Raisin in the Sun. And I thought, What if I don't complain? What if I don't push back because I could have been on a burning plane that day, which is the metaphor for being a parent. Being a single parent of three girls, the relentlessness ... What if I just sucked it up? And I did that night with Odessa. Instead of letting it debilitate me, I turned it around and just started getting into the prose of A Raisin in the Sun. It's now one of the great memories for me and my daughter, and I was able to put that in the show and to share that with people." Two episodes later, Glynn Turman guest-stars as Rocket; as a child, Turman played Travis Younger in the original Broadway cast of A Raisin in the Sun, acting alongside Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee, Louis Gossett Jr., Claudia McNeil, and Diana Sands.