"Uncle George", played by Denver Pyle and in the role of the "old guy" in this episode, was actually a year younger than "Herman Glimscher", played by Bill Idelson and representing the "young guy".
This episode loosely follows a plot line from The Andy Griffith Show that aired two weeks earlier. The TAGS episode was entitled "Briscoe Declares for Aunt Bee," and also featured Denver Pyle in the role of the wife-seeking but boorish man.
Denver Pyle, who plays Rob's Uncle George, is only five years older than Dick Van Dyke.
This is the only one of the three scripts Bill Idelson wrote for the show in which he appears on-screen as Herman Glimscher.
While leaving for work, Rob is told to get "a loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and a 'thou'." One of the stanzas in The Rubaiyat of Omar Kahyyam goes: "A book of verses underneath the bough, a jug of wine, a loaf of bread-and thou beside me singing in the wilderness-oh, wilderness were paradise enow!"