Like many episodes of Jack's television show, this one was a reworking of a radio show he once did.
The only time that Joyce Randolph and Bea Benaderet were castmates. Joyce's future character of Trixie Norton on The Honeymooners (1955) would later serve as the equivalent basis for Bea's Stone Age counterpart Betty Rubble on The Flintstones (1960).
Jack buys a shirt in 1932 for $1.99, and he is still wearing it in 1954. $1.99 in 1932 had the same purchasing power as $3.92 in 1954, and $1.99 in 1932 had the same purchasing power as $31.30 in 2009.