Phil actually uses the FaceTime system used by Apple iOS devices.
Mitch says he had a life-long fear of birds; in an earlier episode, Jay said Mitch had a bird named 'Fliza Minelli.'
Phil's telepresence robot is the first-generation Double, created by Double Robotics of Burlingame, California. Launched just two years before this episode first aired, Double was the brainchild of former BattleBots (2015) contestants David Cann and Marc DeVidts. The two, who met on the BattleBots set, previously founded the short-lived Taptic Toys. Here, while creating an early app-controlled robot toy called Xachi Pet, the pair had their idea for a robotic telepresence robot based around an iPad, initially intending to use it to monitor their Chinese suppliers from afar.