Episode titled after Donald Trump's 408th day in office as President of the United States of America.
This episode reunites Brian Stokes Mitchell and Audra McDonald, who first acted together in the Broadway musical Ragtime (as the star-crossed lovers Coalhouse Walker Jr. and Sarah). Both Mitchell and McDonald were nominated for Tonys for Ragtime (Mitchell's first nomination and McDonald's third); though Mitchell didn't win for Ragtime, McDonald did.
Doris McCarthy who has an uncredited role as a local dignitary in this episode, also had an uncredited role in four different episodes of The Good Wife (2009).
Kristen Carpenter's first career nude scene.