Production
This episode also has an alternate title: Snow Job.
This episode was also a tie-in with a contest in which Ashley Jensen's character, Christina, must come up a designer outfit that was created by viewers at home. The winning design was unveiled in this episode. On February 8, 2007 Ricardo Rodriguez of Fort Lauderdale, Florida was announced as the winner.
The subway scenes had several errors. When Hilda, Justin and Santos are on the E train, it is seen going from 179th Street in Queens to the World Trade Center in Manhattan. However, the E train's Queens terminus has been Jamaica Center – Parsons/Archer since 1988. This is improperly regarded as an error, because the E train does run to 179th Street during rush hours in addition to Jamaica Center. The exterior shot of the E train was of a Redbird train, which are no longer in service in the NYC subway system. They were retired in 2003. Also, the Redbird trains were IRT trains not IND trains thus the wrong size to run on the E train. The subway scene where Betty and Charlie got separated was shot at the 7th St/Metro Center in Downtown Los Angeles; the LACMTA Red Line was a stand-in for a New York City Subway station.
When Grace is listing off girls Daniel treated poorly in college, she mentions a Julie Dwyer. This is a possible nod to Kevin Smith's films, which feature a simiarlarly named character whose offscreen death lead to many of his film's events. The episode mentioned that Grace and Daniel graduated college in 1995.
This episode introduced Jayma Mays to the cast as a recurring regular. This will be the second television series in which Mays played a character named Charlie; The first being Heroes. Also, Jerry O'Connell (playing Joel, in the bar) is the real life husband of Rebecca Romijn (playing Alex/Alexis Meade), who would return the favor by playing his ex-wife on O'Connell's sitcom Carpoolers.
Although Kevin Sussman is no longer a regular, his name was still credited in this episode, which would continue throughout the first season.
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