The episode title is a reference to the Cary Grant/Katharine Hepburn screwball comedy Bringing Up Baby (1938).
In this episode, while Opie is at the Johnson Mine, kicking a can and eating apples in the back of a pick-up truck, it is the longest time in the entire series without dialog at 2 minutes and 20 seconds. "The Bed Jacket" (1 minute and 46 seconds) is the second longest run time without dialog.
This is the last episode featuring a map of Idaho (right-side-up since the episode "The New Doctor" and a map of Nevada (upside down) on the wall behind Sheriff Andy Taylor's desk. In the first few episodes of season 2, a map of North Carolina is on the wall behind Andy's desk.