Worms of In-Rear-ment/Trivia

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• Table read date: Unknown.
• The title references the 1983 movie Terms of Endearment.
• This is the only episode from the ninth (9ASA) production season to not air in Season 10, the only Season 11 episode to not credit Larry Murphy during the credits and the only episode to have music co-scored by Loren Bouchard.
• First episode in Season 11 where Teddy doesn't appear.
• This episode aired while the COVID-19 pandemic was ongoing in 2020. Despite the coincidence of airing in the midst of a worldwide pandemic while the focusing on a pinworm epidemic, the episode was written before the outbreak. The plot was inspired by writer Nora Smith's experience of two people close to her getting pinworms.
• When Tina is looking in her wardrobe, some of her clothes and dresses from earlier episodes can be seen including; her padded and unpadded winter jackets, her birthday dress from "Sheesh! Cab, Bob?," and her purple dress from "Two for Tina" and "Mazel Tina."
• The lyrics to the music playing when Gene begins to itch is; "Enterobius, vermicularis," which is the scientific name for the roundworm that causes pinworm infections.
• Bob visits the same drugstore seen in "Poops!… I Didn't Do It Again" and is served by the same clerk.
• This is the last episode to be executive produced by Jim Dauterive, and the last to have the Buck & Millie Productions logo at the end.
• This is the last episode to feature music from Loren Bouchard until Season 14’s The Amazing Rudy.
• At the official Comic Con @ Home panel, clips from this episode were released.
• Clips from this episode were included in an exclusive promo video released by The Wrap.com on September 8, 2020, along with plot and cast information ahead of the press release.
• On July 13, 2021, it was announced that this episode had been nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program at the 73rd Primetime Emmy Awards, giving the show its tenth consecutive nomination in that category. It later lost to Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal