Chasing IT - Production

Production

  • Max Casella (Benny Fazio) is billed in the opening credits but only for this episode.
  • The headstone that Vito Jr. knocks over in the cemetery is for a "David M. Hackel". Episode writer Matthew Weiner worked for Hackel as a writer for the sitcom Becker.
  • Silvio Dante is seen reading a newspaper with an advertisement for Filene's Basement. On the February 28, 2007 episode of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Steve Schirripa did a special correspondent piece covering Filene's Basement's annual Running of the Brides.
  • Blanca breaks up with A.J. at the New York Puerto Rican Day Parade, which is held every year in June. However, Tony wagers on several NFL football games when the NFL season (including preseason) takes place from August to February. Moreover, due to the format of the NFL schedule, two of the games he bets on, Buffalo Bills-Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Miami Dolphins-Philadelphia Eagles, cannot take place in the same season--both Miami and Buffalo play in the AFC East and would therefore play their inter-conference NFC games against teams from a single division, but Philadelphia is part of the NFC East and Tampa Bay the NFC South.
  • Furthermore, he loses an NBA wager when Jerry Stackhouse hits a buzzer beater.
  • The casino scenes were filmed at Atlantic City's Borgata Hotel and Casino.
  • The horse race Tony lost big on in Atlantic City was portrayed as being simulcast from Batavia Downs.
  • Tony sees Muhammad and Ahmed acting more religious on the street and suspects they may be linked to terrorism, as he tells the FBI agents in "Walk Like a Man". There are two other references to Islamic connections to the "war on terror": When Tony and Bobby drop by to take him fishing, Hesh lies and tells Tony he was watching a piece on the Hezbollah on CNN, and when Tony switches channels from the basketball game he was betting on as Carmela comes into the bedroom, the TV station shows a clip of George W. Bush meeting the visiting Saudi king.
  • The Tampa Bay-Buffalo football game being watched at the Bing that Tony loses money on is actually footage from the film The Replacements.
  • Last appearances of Hesh Rabkin and Hugh and Mary de Angelis.
  • This episode was shot entirely with hand-held cameras.

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