Still sorta feels like walking up to the front door and ringing the bell.
When a simple freighter-jacking goes badly, two estranged partners will find themselves caught up in a nightmare of their own making. To find a way out, they will have to navigate the big lies they’ve been telling each other and the ones they’ve been telling themselves.
- Molina is voiced by Mel Nichols
- Crutchfield is voiced by Sam Stark
- CRAA-F:T is voiced by Emma Johanna Puranen
- The Captain is voiced by Scott Paladin
- First Officer Tennille is voiced by Izzy Trevellian
- Brother Argyre is voiced by Interiority
- The episode gets its title from “Ring the Bell” by Songs: Ohia.
- All the characters are named after musicians. Molina is named after Songs: Ohia's Jason Molina. Crutchfield is named after Waxahatchee's Katie Crutchfield. Captain Daryl and First Officer Tennille are named after the Captain and Tennille.
- Leckner was supposed to be named after A. Lenker of Big Thief, but Interiority typoed the name and liked it better that way after the fact.
- Leckner was supposed to be named Morby originally, after Kevin Morby, but the “It's Morbin' Time!” meme ruined that.
- The role of CRAAF:T was specifically written for Emma Johanna Puranen.
- The ships in the episode are all named after album titles of various artists: Cerulean Cloud (Waxahatchee), Singing Saw (Kevin Morby), Ohia (Songs: Ohia)
- The racist organization in the Season 1 episode Oh Beautiful For Heroes Proved is mentioned in this episode.
- Crutchfield's wicker chair in the Ohia is a reference to the wicker chairs in World War I aircrafts.
- This episode is one of four non-Finale episodes in Season 3 which features a plot arc involving secretly related characters, colloquially known backstage as the “Disaster Family”.