At the beginning, when Amy says she has an announcement, people ask if she is pregnant. While Amy isn't pregnant, America Ferrera gave birth to her second child during the worldwide pandemic.
In August 2020, actress Nichole Sakura (Cheyenne) announced via Instagram that she would thereafter be known professionally by her family name Sakura, rather than as Nichole Bloom. She wrote that she took the name Bloom (derived from Sakura, which is Japanese for "Cherry Blossom") after being told by an agent that her Japanese name would make it harder for her to get work. This is the first episode in which she is credited using her Japanese family name.
When Dina is spraying Glenn with the hose, she says "I have had this new nozzle for years and this is the first time I have used it". In Strike (2016) she tries to spray the striking employees with a hose and complains that there isn't a setting to hurt people. She's implying she bought the hose to hurt people after that incident.
Superstore was one of the first television shows to resume production after the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. NBC viewed the series as a test case, not just for resuming production with the virus still rampant, but in addressing the pandemic head-on in the narrative of the series.
Because the previous season ended prematurely due to the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, the unusual step was taken to insert this episode between the two halves of the "California" two-parter, California Part 1 (2020) and California Part 2 (2020).