The crowns appearing on people's head when they eat the margarine is a takeoff on an Imperial margarine commercial that was running at the time. When people ate Imperial margarine, a fanfare would be heard and a crown would appear on their heads.
A crown appears on King Oliver's head when he eats Oleo margarine.
The motto of the unnamed state in which Hooterville is located is "Have a Good Day."
Lyle Talbot's movie star Governor (Governor Carstairs) was a mocking attack at of the then-California Governor Ronald Reagan, who was in his second term in 1971 when this episode premiered.
Lyle Talbot's movie star Governor Carstairs announced to the state that the state was bankrupt. Of the things he was doing was "Shutting Down 12 of Our Colleges." This parallels the actions taken by the Governor of California at the time the episode was release: Gov. Ronald Reagan, who shut down the University of California (UC) and California State Universities (CSU) in May of 1970, when students were unified protesting then-President Richard Nixon's continuation of the Vietnam War.