During the closing monologue, Jack breaks character and reveals that Mary really was his wife and that Joan really was their daughter.
Jack Benny and Mary Livingston had been married for 27 years when this episode aired.
Early on Jack has shaving cream on his face and the parrot sings "How are you fixed for blades?" and Jack reprimands the bird for "always watching the fights". A parrot singing "how are you fixed for blades" was the mainstay Gillette Blue Blade ad campaigne and those ads were in heavy rotation on the Gillette Cavalcade of Sports, a TV program that mostly covered boxing.