The episode, directed by "South Park" animation director Eric Stough, has a unique look compared to most other episodes of the series. The creators wanted a different design for Pip's England featured in the episode. For example, the directions for the exterior scenes were to make them look like they were "right out of a Dickens novel." To achieve the style, assets had to be built from scratch, including many new characters with "new mouths with rotted out teeth" that were used for most of them. At the beginning of the episode, Pip is dressed in more ragged clothing than he usually wears in "South Park". Later, when he becomes a gentleman in London, he is wearing his usual "South Park" attire, including his bow tie. The character of Pocket is designed to look similar to the children in the 1974 Rankin/Bass animated Christmas television special '"Twas the Night Before Christmas".