Jack's plot in this episode involves his and Cooter's discovery that "in 1994, the Pentagon explored the possibility of a nonlethal chemical weapon that would 'reduce enemy soldiers' combat posture by making them totally gaybones for each other.'" This is not an invention of the episode's writers; in 2005, various news outlets reported that in 1994, the US Defense Department had indeed researched the feasibility of a so-called "gay-bomb," meant to disrupt enemy discipline and morale by making them chemically attracted to each other. The idea never left the theoretical stage, and the project was never pursued.
When learning how to back door brag, Kenneth says "it's hard for me to watch American Idol because there's a water bug on my channel-changer." In her memoir Bossypants, Tina Fey said that this is one of her favorite lines written by Donald Glover, probably because of "the use of the grandmotherly expression of channel-changer."
The title of the episode is one of Tina Fey's favorite words. Fey likes the word because "it's one of the least graphic ways to describe the female genitals"
The signs on Jack's office door in Washington D.C. say: "Department of Homeland Security," "Tornadoes," "Farm Credit Administration," and "Space for Rent."
The episode won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series.