A sequence where Allison Williams' Marnie has an erotic dream about Ray and then orgasms while waking up from it was difficult to shoot because Williams' reactions had to be timed inside a narrow window to capture a close-up of her facial features. Karpovsky said that after trying some methods to "cue" her, he thinks the scene was captured by someone tapping Williams on her big toe and the moment being filmed right after that.
Alex Karpovsky (who plays Ray) was always going to direct a Season 5 episode after Lena Dunham received an enthusiastic agreement to her query of whether he wanted to try that. The episode slot for Karpovsky came down to either the next to last episode of Season 5 or its season finale; he and Dunham agreed he would direct the latter because the other episode had complicated technical elements that would have been very difficult to handle for someone who had never directed before.