Episode Notes
- This episode was originally titled "Lesson".
- The title puns on the literal making of the Banana Stand, along with the stand that Gob and Michael take against their father. "We're making a stand" is also a lyric in the mock Beatles song "Yellow Boat," which plays during the second photo montage in the episode.
- "Yellow Boat" is also the credits music for this particular episode.
- The episode parallels the first season's "Pier Pressure", with J. Walter Weatherman's involvement in teaching lessons in a violent way, and the continual twist around of advantages in the teaching of those lessons.
- "Making a Stand" is show creator Mitchell Hurwitz's joint-favorite episode, the other being companion piece "Pier Pressure".
- Although this episode's production code suggests it is the seventh episode of the season, it should in fact be the eighth one (which it was aired as), as there is no mention of Rita after Michael broke up with her in the sixth episode, and Tobias has hair plugs removed in this episode, but still has them in during "Prison Break-In".
- This episode made the Parents Television Council's Worst Primetime TV Show of the Week] list for the first week of 2006 due to its "graphic violence and dysfunction."
- Will Arnett can be heard as the voice over in the trailer for Gangee.
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