Trivia[]
- Table read date: April 26, 2019.
- The title is a reference to the 1997 movie, Wag the Dog. This makes Wag the Dog the second work to have been referenced twice in episode titles (the first instance being Wag the Hog) after Easy Rider which was used for "Ear-sy Rider" and later "Speakeasy Rider."
- First episode to credit an "Executive Assistant to Loren Bouchard and Nora Smith" (Paige Vehlewald) following Smith's promotion to showrunner in 2019.
- The last name of episode director Chris Song is within the title.
- Henry Haber appears on the script cover and Jim Gaffigan is credited for voicing him on the press release but Henry doesn't have any lines.
- The school portraits are handled by Thompson Photography. named for the episode's writer Greg Thompson.
- Three of the Burgers of the Day don't have 'The' preceding them making them the first in Season 10 not to.
- Regular Sized Rudy previously alluded to not being able to sing in "The Itty Bitty Ditty Committee," saying he couldn't if he wanted to live.
- Jimmy Jr. was running awkwardly in the flashback, providing continuity from the episode "The Gene Mile," where the episode shows Jimmy Jr. terribly running in the mile marathon.