John Cleese and Kelsey Grammer play former college classmates, but Cleese is more than fifteen years older than Grammer
John Cleese has an avid lay interest in psychotherapy and co-authored two books with family therapist Robin Skynner.
The writers felt that they had a good first act but were struggling with the rest of the episode. John Cleese observed that they were trying too hard to write funny dialogue for his character and told them to just think of him as another actor.