[3] The show, paired with Pig Sty, followed Star Trek: Voyager on UPN's Monday schedule.
[4] In the early 1990s, Jeni developed a comedy routine where he watched a National Geographic special on the platypus.
The set design for the special was created by Norm Dodge and included a checkered tile floor, a backdrop with painted-on palm trees, a refrigerator and microwave at one end of the stage (provided by Aronson Furniture, for a comedic bit entitled "Bill the Belching Gourmet"), and a black sofa at the other end of the stage.
This design was reproduced in clay for the opening sequence of Platypus Man, in which art director Rick Toone of D&K Group/Claymagic used the process of claymation to introduce the show with the help of a duck-billed clay version of Richard Jeni and footage from the platypus exhibit at Taronga Zoo in Sydney.
Ron Orbach played Lou, executive producer of his cooking show and his best friend since childhood.