The final pepper in the spicy food eating contest was a Trinidad Scorpion, in March of 2011 the Guinness Book for World Records measured its potency at 1.46 million Scoville heat units making it the hottest pepper in the world at the time. It was surpassed as the hottest pepper in the world by the Carolina Reaper in August of 2017, which was rated at 1.64 million Scoville units. In August of 2023 Pepper X became the hottest pepper in the world at 2.69 million units. By comparison the banana pepper the contest started with is only 500 Scoville units, jalapenos average 5,000 units and habaneros 350,000.
The cut scene with the church in this episode is of Stowe, Vermont with some mountains digitally composited in.
This is the second episode in which Harry implied that he wanted a child to be killed by a ceiling fan; he had earlier asked that Max kill himself by using a trampoline in a ceiling fan store after turning a fan on.