The radio clips that Sonia Kamanzi plays contain many "jokes" about the Rwandan ethnic minority Tutsis, denigrating them as "cockroaches." This element is based in fact; many of the inciting messages leading to the Rwandan genocide against Tutsis were broadcast over the radio station Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines (RTLM), and much of that content involved Hutus referring to the Tutsis as cockroaches to be exterminated (as well as "tall trees" needing to be "cut down"). After the 2020 arrest of the fugitive genocide suspect Félicien Kabuga, the Hutu businessman who co-owned RTLM, the Financial Times reported that the radio station not only spread virulent anti-Tutsi propaganda, it also broadcast the names and locations of Tutsis and encouraged Hutus to go murder them.
When Kristen tells Andy that eating uncooked rice makes birds' stomachs explode, she is repeating an urban legend that is a myth. There is no truth to it.
Jayne Houdyshell plays a Judge in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999) as well, which is also filmed in New York City.
The original title for this episode was "100 Days".