When Mr. Haney leaves Mr. Douglas in the barn, Eleanor the cow follows him. To get Eleanor to follow him, Mr. Haney has hay in his left hand to entice her to follow him. You can just see wisps of the hay when he is walking out the barn door.
The engagement ring Eb splurges for costs $47.50 and is slightly less than three karats. Adjusted for inflation, the ring would cost nearly $420 in the year 2023.
When Haney shows up fronting Carlos Wellnapper and his All-Girl Marimba Band, he performs "My Nose Used to Bleed for Kitty When I Met Her in Mexico City." The tune sounds oddly like the series' theme.
Perhaps best remembered for her starring role in the TV sitcom F Troop (1965), Melody Patterson was only19 years old when this episode originally aired and Tom Lester, her betrothed Eb, had just turn 30.
This is the first of two appearances John Qualen makes in the series, each time as a different character. The other appearance occurs in The Ex-Con (1970) from season 3. Famous for affecting accents to fit the roles he played, he made many stellar appearances in multiple movies and TV shows over the course of his nearly 5-decade acting career, cast in such iconic movies as Casablanca (1942) and The Grapes of Wrath (1940).