This episode marks a major transition point in the setting of Seinfeld, as Elaine loses both the job and the apartment she has had since the beginning of the series, while George brings an end to more than three years of unemployment and one year of living with his parents. His job with the Yankees would become a significant part of Seinfeld for the next three seasons.
This is the first episode in which Larry David voices the character George Steinbrenner. Lee Bear provided the body.
George (Jason Alexander) first mentions doing the opposite in the pilot episode, Good News, Bad News (1989), when he advises Jerry against cleaning his toilet before Laura (Pamela Brull) comes over.
This is the last episode Tom Cherones directed. Andy Ackerman would take over as the primary director for the remaining seasons.
Regis Philbin apparently did not like the use of the word "bonkos," as it got no laughs from the audience. Philbin stated in the 2011 memoir "How I Got This Way: "I will never forget that silence, nor will ever get over it."