In a sad irony, this episode starts out centering on Norm (George Wendt) thinking he could be dying because of his heart. Meanwhile, Nicholas Colasanto was very unhealthy with heart troubles, and would pass away before the end of the season was done filming.
Norm had an interview and physical in Braintree. Braintree, Massachusetts is a town southeast of Boston.
The title references the 1719 novel Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe about an English castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical island near Venezuela, encountering Native Americans, captives, and mutineers before being rescued. The story has been the basis for plays, radio dramas, movies and television shows.