For this entire season, Zachary Levi (Charles "Chuck" Irving Bartowski) was nominated for the 2008 Teen Choice Award for "Choice Breakout TV Star-Male". Also, Joshua Gomez (Morgan Grimes) was nominated for the 2008 ALMA Award for "Outstanding Male Performance in a Comedy Television Series".
Due to the 2007-2008 Writers Guild of America strike, this episode unintentionally served as the season finale despite the show being picked up for a 22-episode season. After the strike ended, Josh Schwartz, one of the creators, decided not to continue season 1 and moved the show forward with a season 2.
The bug found by Chuck in the Buy More is a model GLG-20. This is also the term used to classify the type and level of spy in the 1985 movie Spies Like Us (1985) starring Chevy Chase and Dan Aykroyd.
Sarah states Casey doesn't use GLG-20 bugs, but only EM-50 bugs. The EM-50 is also the code name for the RV disguised as an urban assault vehicle in the 1981 Ivan Reitman classic, Stripes (1981), starring Bill Murray and Harold Ramis.