The sketch artist in "The Eye Doesn't Lie" was the actual artist from the court case that the original documentary "The Thin Blue Line" was centered around. This was a total coincidence, as the show's creators thought they had just hired a random police sketch artist.
Meyers, Hader and Armisen came up with the idea of a mockumentary show while creating a sketch called "The History of Punk" at Saturday Night Live.
Was renewed by IFC for season 2 and 3 before the first episode had even aired.
For the episodes involving the gangster festival and the rice-and-chicken cook, Fred Armisen traveled to Iceland and Colombia respectively.
Hader and Armisen revealed that they would not appear in season 3 due to their commitments to other projects. However, Armisen did actually end up appearing in a few episodes, while Hader is credited as a co-writer on another.