Bartlett's Familiar quotations did, in fact, reject Richard Lewis' quote "the _______ from hell" although the Yale Book of Quotations has accepted Lewis' coinage of the phrase.
The house used for the pool party is the same house used for exterior shots for The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
Larry mentions a "schlepp". Schlepp is a Yiddish word that stems from German. Schleppen is a verb to describe if someone pulls and carries something that is very heavy.