One of the few times in Room 104 where a member of Hotel management is seen. In this episode the manager is played by J.P. Giuliotti.
In a 2020 interview with TV Obsessive, Mel Eslyn spoke about the origin of The Specimen Collector (2019): "I wrote the first draft of The Specimen Collector (2019) in a hotel room in Toronto where Jay Duplass and I were premiering our film Outside In (2017). I sent it to Mark Duplass and he called me five minutes later saying 'Oh hell yeah', and that was that."