 Hatem recalls enjoying the "haunted gas station mini mart" from the episode "The Battle at Shadow Ridge", which he claimed to possibly be the "goofiest" episode of the series; Hatem said, "If a gas station mini mart can be haunted, then I can go to sleep a happy man; then I know this world is truly a special place".Richard Hatem joked that he and David Greenwalt adopted "mundane" as the "buzzword" of the series, although they never told anyone because "that's not what a network likes to hear".Hatem and Greenwalt used the idea of "mundane" throughout the series as a way of showing the audience that strange occurrences can happen in everyday places.