Mackenzie Phillips has said in interviews that she loved doing this episode as she really admired Mary Tyler Moore. Phillips said that Moore was gracious and even had invited her to join her, during the episode's production week, in her daily dance class that she took during the show's lunch break. Phillips performance was so well received that CBS decided to cast her in Norman Lear's new sitcom One Day At A Time which premiered only a couple of months the later in December of 1975.