About seventeen minutes into the program, Lisa and Oliver have supposedly arrived at the state capitol to speak with the governor; the state capitol building displayed for a few seconds is the Massachusetts State House, on Beacon St. in Boston.
The state Capitol building appearing in this episode is the Massachusetts State House in Boston.
Adjusted for inflation, the $1.75 Oliver pays for the hotel room would equal approximately $16 in the year 2023. The $400.22 Fred Ziffel receives as a refund would equal approximately $3,756.72. The $3,498,000.22 tax bill Eb claims the state is charging would equal approximately $32,834,454.10.
The bed in the hotel room is an example of a Murphy bed, so named after William Lawrence Murphy, the man who in 1900 received a patent for the concept of a bed hidden in a closet.
The swimming cap Oliver buys for Lisa has the name Gertrude Ederle on it, the name of the sixth person and the very first woman to successfully swim the English Channel. She accomplished this feat 6 August 1926.