"Make it funnier," Sesame Workshop co-founder Joan Ganz Cooney said when she was shown the show's pilot.
Besides their "Electric Company" roles, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Chris Sullivan, James Iglehart, Bill Sherman, and Chris Jackson are members of the hip-hop comedy troupe Freestyle Love Supreme.
When the show was canceled, a fourth season was in pre-production, and a press kit for the new season was made available.
The radio station Lukewarm 91.5 is a pun on the name of real-life radio station Hot 97 (WQHT-FM) in New York.
The interior scenes for the Electric Diner were filmed in a converted auto showroom near downtown Newark, New Jersey.