The cooking show Fred watches, The Cavorting Connoisseur, is a funny reference to the then real-life programme called The Galloping Gourmet.
Lamont's being accepted to Lee Ginsberg's acting class is a reference to Lee Strassberg's Actors Studio West in Los Angeles, the west coast branch of Strassberg's famous Actors Studio in New York City.
The kitchen used in The Cavorting Connoisseur is the same kitchen set used in the spinoff Grady before it was cancelled.