As House pesters Cameron in the ER to restore cable in Coma Guy's room, she tells House that he will have to survive on broadcast television. His response is "that works for Tuesdays but..." which refers to the show House, M.D. airing on Tuesdays on the Fox broadcasting network.
This episode aired on Fox immediately after the network covered the Super Bowl XLII between the New York Giants and the New England Patriots; it attracted slightly more than 29 million viewers, making it the most-watched episode of the series.
This was the last episode finished before the 2007 WGA strike.
Asking a team to diagnose a problem remotely, then dumping a box of the limited items available by the remote team, echoes a scene from Apollo 13 (1995).