The state senator representing Hooterville introduces himself as a former actor named Lyle Talbot. He is played by Lyle Talbot.
This was Fran Ryan's first appearance as Doris Ziffel after taking over the role from Barbara Pepper.
Thirty years earlier, $7000 was budgeted for paving the road. The cost now is $22 million.
Lisa confuses Lyle Talbot, playing himself in a fictitious role as State Senator, with George Murphy, who was an actual U.S. Senator for California at the time this episode originally aired. She mistakenly suggests that the State Senator was in a movie dancing with Shirley Temple. Lyle Talbot does appear in two movies in which Shirley Temple appears, but he does not dance with her in either. George Murphy does appear in one movie with Shirley Temple, i.e. Little Miss Broadway (1938), and does dance with her in that movie.
For lunch, Lisa prepares cold cuts by heating them in the oven and then placing them in the refrigerator.