Doc and Beans are inspired by Ken and Roberta Williams, a real-life couple who founded Sierra Entertainment, a video game company known for the King's Quest series that eventually sold to Activision.
The video game company is named "Oubliette Studios". An oubliette is a dungeon with only one entrance - a trapdoor in its ceiling. "Oubliette" is also the title of The X-Files episode 8 from season 3, which aired in 1995, when the fictional video game studio from this episode was apparently founded.
This is the second time Cristin Milioti has played a character that is part of a videogame development team. The first was the Black Mirror episode USS Callister.
The characters Doc and Bean celebrate the signing of their first video game deal in the same building used as Geist headquarters in Amazon's "Homecoming". The building is located at 19001 S. Western Avenue, Torrance, CA, and was previously part of Toyota's US headquarters.
This episode steps away from the usual format of the show and gives us the backstory to two unrelated games creators, played by Jake Johnson and Cristin Milioti. Only Rob McElhenney from the regular cast appears, and that's only in the episode's closing minutes.