The title of the episode, "The Long Way Around" is almost the same as Ewan Mcgregor's TV series "Long Way Round" where he and Charley Boorman rode motorcycles from London(UK) to New York(USA).
Ewan McGregor sports the same mullet he wears in A Life Less Ordinary (1997) which he had recently completed filming.
The episode won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Editing for a Series - Single Camera Production.
This is a Julianna Margulies-centric episode. The only other members of the main cast to make appearances are George Clooney and Laura Innes.