 Graham Linehan stated in the DVD commentary of this episode that he thinks this is far too long and at moments expresses his boredom towards the end of the commentary track.Andy Riley, who previously collaborated with Linehan and Mathews, is one of the names mentioned along with Neil Hannon in Mrs Doyle's guessing game.In 2013, Riley noted the scene's similarity to a passage in Flann O'Brien's "The Third Policeman", where the protagonist attempts to guess the name of the person who previously held his soul.