The characters of Artie and Marty Pipkin, who try to get Clifford to come work on their puppet show, are obviously a takeoff on Sid and Marty Krofft, the team of brothers who produced children's puppet shows on TV such as "H.R. Pufnstuf," "Sigmund & the Sea Monsters" and "Lidsville."
Muppeteer Leslie Carrara-Rudolph appears as the woman Kermit thinks he has a date with, but who turns out to be a friend of Gilbert Gottfried.