Fran Ryan makes her first appearance on the show. She would return the next month, again playing Minnie Holcombe. That fall she would take over the recurring role of Doris Ziffel.
While making a fast exit from the Secretary of Agriculture's office, Hank Kimball says he's Dooley Hickens from Albuquerque. Dooley Hickens was the name of the county's great crate writer in The Thing (1967).
In their room, Arnold gets his own bed while Hank and Eb share one.
Hank Kimball tells the Secretary of Agriculture's secretary that his full name is Henry Necessary Kimball, or Henry Narcissus Kimball.
Lisa tells Oliver that she danced with the president four years ago and that he isn't president anymore. Lyndon B. Johnson would have been the president four years prior to the time this episode originally aired, and his successor, Richard Nixon, would have been in office almost exactly one month.