Live Free or Die (The Sopranos) - Production

Production

• The scenes filmed for the town of Dartford, New Hampshire were actually filmed in Boonton, New Jersey.
• The highway Vito was travelling on when his car broke down, New Hampshire Route 228, is also fictitious.
• At a diner in Dartford, Vito is introduced to jonnycakes, pancakes made with white corn meal, which is also the title of the sixth season's eighth episode.
• This is the final episode to be written by the married writing team of Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess. They left the series, which they had been with since the first season, to produce a new project for HBO, which never took shape.
• Sharon Angela (Rosalie Aprile) is now billed in the opening credits but only for the episodes in which she appears.
• In the scene with Dr. Melfi, Tony referenced the controversial comments made by Senator Rick Santorum (pronouncing his last name as "Sanatorium") who once claimed the government's allowance of gay marriage would be the first step in a slippery slope leading to tolerance of more taboo practices, including bestiality.
• Also in the scene with Dr. Melfi, Tony referenced a Showtime series (The L Word) when talking about "that lesbian show with Jennifer Beals."
• After Finn confirms to the Soprano crew that he caught Vito performing a sex act on a security guard ("Unidentified Black Males"), Christopher suggests that he should cut off his penis and "feed it to him." This same fate befell actor Michael Imperioli's character at the hands of the Viet Cong in the film Dead Presidents.
• Also, in the scene where Finn confirms Vito's sexual preference, the table and the seating of the crew around the table suggests The Last Supper in placement, as well as mood, as "betrayal" is an oft-repeated suggestion by Christopher, Paulie among others.