The first act was filmed in a few continuous shots without cuts.
Yvette Nicole Brown could not be on the set when they shot the scenes with the kittens, because she is super allergic, so a stand-in had to be used and the scene had to be the very last one shot.
Jeff says about the curtains "Actually, these will also work for Valentine's Day, Presidents' Day, or whenever people get to see it." This references the fact that this episode was shot when NBC had moved the premiere date for Season Four of Community to an undisclosed time.
This episode was intended to be an homage to the 1948 Alfred Hitchcock film Rope (1948). According to writer Andy Bobrow, he had intended the episode to be shot in long tracking sequences, in real time, just like the movie, but production argued it wouldn't be feasible in the timeframe they were given to shoot it. An allusion to that intention is Abed's line "This is amazing and possibly happening in real time!", when the group argues amongst themselves after Cornwallis is tied up by Chang.
Two of the kittens handed out at the end of the episode are named 'James' and 'Fiona' after Danny Pudi's children.