The video game the boys are playing throughout the episode is "Ori and the Blind Forest."
This was the only episode filmed in Los Angeles.
Matthew Weiner specifically choose crew members from his show MAD MEN, which filmed in Los Angeles , to work on this episode.
Nicole Ari Parker and Mike Doyle who were in the episode "House of a Special Purpose" were both in the TV show "Time After Time." Mike Doyle played Nicole Ari Parker's character's father in one episode.