When Roy asked Mary if Dick was "the one", she said that Dick was a "pompous ass". When Jane Curtin was part of the "Weekend Update" segment of "Saturday Night Live", she would occasionally call co-anchor Dan Aykroyd a pompous ass during their "Point-Counterpoint" skits.
Bronson Pinchot also starred in the ABC comedy "Perfect Strangers".
This was the last of seven episodes in which James Earl Jones added an unique one-liner to the standard narration under the opening credits. Here, the one-liner is "Earth is a place where backing down causes ego problems - backing up causes severe tire damage."
Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Bronson Pinchot both Appeared later in the In the Netflix movie in (2024) Beverly Hills Cop Axel F.