This episode was Bryan Cranston's submission in the Best Leading Actor in a Drama Series in the 2013 Emmy Awards- his fifth nomination for the show.
Walt says to Todd as he begins to teach him how to cook meth, "I don't need you to be Antoine Lavoisier." Antoine Lavoisier is known as "the father of modern chemistry."
A longer cold open than usual, lasting six and a half minutes.
The working title for this episode was "Everybody Wins."
Saul told Walter that Mike would have been better off using the Three Stooges law firm. The name of their law firm was Dewey, Cheatem and Howe, from an early 1930's Three Stooges episode.