According to the commentary, Albert Brooks improvised so much good material that the scene of Homer buying the RV could have been the whole episode. Only a bit of the ad-libbing was used.
The sequence with Marge and Lisa by the bonfire was originally longer and included a conversation between the two about boys, but it was cut from the episode.
Burger King figurines were made out of the camping designs of the Simpsons family in this episode.
First appearance of Rod Flanders.
This episode was a satire of the Bigfoot specials that had aired on the Fox network at the time when this episode was written.