Mr. Ziffel says Arnold had rather stay home and watch The Beverly Hillbillies (1962) rather than go to the Douglases' party. When later rushing from the Douglases' home, Mr. Ziffel says that they can catch the end of The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961). Both sitcoms were airing on CBS at the time.
Lisa Douglass was sitting at her bureau talking to Molly Turgiss about all the stuff they did not have over one-hundred years ago. Lisa went through the list of items: "like ah, Wrinkle Remover, Skin Younger-upper, Eyes Prettier, Hair Unstringer (aka, scissors.)"
Lisa never had any biological sisters, so when she says, "All this stuff belongs to my sister," the actress is taking a playful jab at her real sister, Zsa Zsa Gabor, the sister who received more attention, strived to be more glamorous with a penchant for richer tastes in clothes and lifestyle, and seemed to be more concerned with her outward appearance than Eva Gabor. She was second-runner-up for Miss Hungary 1933. She was also the more eccentric. In 1989, she would serve three days in jail for slapping a police officer during a traffic stop.
Viewers received a better look at Renie Riano, playing Molly Turgiss here, in Economy Flight to Washington (1969). She played the unsympathetic Stewardess who kicked Arnold the Pig off The Cut-Rate Airline to Washington D. C.
Mr. Haney ask Mr. Douglas to write a song about William Jennings Bryan, who was a renown orator and Democratic Party candidate for the office of President of the U.S. in 1896, 1900, and 1908. He later served as Secretary of State in Woodrow Wilson's administration. Some might argue that he is best remembered for lending his services to the team of prosecutors who tried John Thomas Scopes for teaching evolution in a Tennessee high school in 1925, a case infamously labeled in the press as the Scope's Monkey Trial.
Mr. Kimball says that dogs liked Molly because she was shaped like a dog biscuit.