Before this show, in which Lucille Ball lip-synchs to a record of Carmen Miranda singing Mamãe eu quero, Lucy asked Miranda for permission to impersonate her.
Rosalind Russell and Teresa Wright were in the studio audience when this episode was filmed. After the show, they posed for a photograph with Desi and Lucy, who was still wearing her "Carmen Miranda" costume. The picture appears in "The I Love Lucy Book" by Bart Andrews.
This episode is based on an episode of Ball's radio show "My Favorite Husband" also titled "Be a Pal".
The lip-sync to a record of Carmen Miranda singing Mamãe eu quero was later repeated by Jerry Lewis in Scared Stiff (1953).
In the opening scene, Ricky is reading the September 20, 1951 edition of The New York Times. This episode was filmed the following day.