When Burt Viola and MacGillicudy prepare to square off in the parking garage for their game of Chicken each of them is shown putting their cars into drive and subsequently revving their engines, but neither of their cars or tires move. This would be impossible with an automatic transmission. Both cars are also shown to have tachometers which is extremely rare, but not unheard of, in automatic transmission models.
At the beginning of the episode, Maddie uses a remote control to change the channels on a television that uses dials, not a remote.
-Note: Some remote control TV's in the 80's still had dials.
-Note: Some remote control TV's in the 80's still had dials.