 Fey said that from then on "it became a thing where [they] tried to keep it going", and that even though they could not include one in every episode, they still had a "pretty high batting average".Fey attributed most of the references to executive producer and writer Robert Carlock, whom she described as "the resident expert".In its original American broadcast, "The Head and the Hair" was watched by 5.0 million households, according to the Nielsen ratings system.