For the first 11 episodes of this season, the show was nominated for the 2008 People's Choice Award for "Favorite New TV Comedy" and for the 2007 Satellite Award for "Best Television Series-Comedy or Musical". Also, Zachary Levi (Charles "Chuck" Bartowski) was nominated for "Best Actor in a Series-Comedy or Musical".
Opening scene, betting on the dreidel game. Lester says it came up 'gimel' and he won. In the dreidel game 'gimel' does take the whole pot; but 'gimel' looks like a Greek alphabet lower case lambda and what actually came up was 'he'.
This episode takes place in December 2007.
General Beckman ends the video-conference at 27:40 to the startup sound of a Nintendo Gameboy.
When Casey is talking to Chuck after polishing his Crown Vic, both Casey and Chuck repeatedly say Shiny, a possible Easter egg reference to Firefly; Adam Baldwin was a series regular in Firefly as Jayne Cobb. Shiny was a positive colloquialism in the series.