Gift Card or Buy Trying/Trivia

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Trivia

• Table read date: Unknown.
• The title is similar to the title of the episodes Die Card, or Card Trying from Season 11 and Work Hard or Die Trying, Girl from Season 5. All of these episode titles are take-offs on Get Rich or Die Tryin', the 2003 debut album of rapper 50 Cent (as well as the 2005 film starring him).
• Last episode directed by Tom Riggin before leaving Bento Box Entertainment to work for Warner Brothers Animation.
• This episode premiered at 8pm ET/PT instead of 9pm on April 16, 2023, to accomodate a Family Guy double-bill at 9 while The Simpsons was pre-empted.
• The More Store is a parody of retailer Target featuring a similar interior decor and logo with a square within a square as opposed to Target's circle within a circle.
• The DVDs either side of the Boyz 4 Now DVD Tina looks at are Famous People's Driveways and Hiking Wars.
• Non-stop Bop is a parody of the Bop It audio game.
• When Gene sees a drum set, he mentions Questlove, a musician popularly known for being the drummer on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
  • "Ready Player Gene" was the last episode to reference Questlove.
• In terms of viewership, this is the lowest-rated episode in Season 13 (0.673 million viewers). It was also the lowest-rated episode in the series until Season 14's "Butt Sweat and Fears" reached a lower viewership of 0.593.
• The archery set two and arrows Louise wishes to buy are later seen in her possession in "Fraud of the Dead: Zombie-docu-pocalypse," used to help make a homemade zombie movie.
• The scene Louise imagines herself being an expert archer in with the bow and arrow is a take-off on The Hunger Games.

Behind the Scenes

• Background designs by Britt Sodersjerna