Although the setting is Brooklyn Heights, NY, Ross has a California license plate hanging on his bedroom wall.
Adjusted for inflation, the $25 cost of replacing the window Stretch breaks would amount to approximately $240 in the year 2022.
This is the only appearance Larry Poland makes in the series and his only professional acting job. His talents, up to this time in his life, lay largely on the basketball court, hence his role as Stretch, the champion basketball player. In real life, he was a star player for his high school basketball team at Keyport High School in Keyport, NJ, and subsequently at the erstwhile Monmouth College (now Monmouth University) in NJ.