At the office party, Herman asks if the fellows know "Moonlight on the Ganges". The Village Stompers' song, an American Dixieland jazz group, was a hit on Billboard magazine's Hot 100 singles chart in December 1964.
Herman is picked up by "the company car" (a hearse), a 1949 Cadillac Series 75, 4-door limousine (3rd generation). In the US, the majority of hearses are Cadillacs and Ford's Lincolns specially adapted by coachbuilders.
Director Charles Barton directed Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948), another comedy focusing on Frankenstein's monster, 17 years earlier.