This story "borrows" two classic bits from America's seminal sitcom,
I Love Lucy (1951). Brian's mail-order catalog needs a replacement child model for his clothing line, when the original model gets chicken pox. While Brian is on the phone with his agency describing the kind of boy that's needed, Chuckie Lee is listening, mimicking each characteristic: 'not too tall', Chuckie Lee crouches down; 'not too short', he stands tall; 'cute face', Chuckie Lee takes off his glasses, cocks his head and grins widely. And so forth. In
Ricky's Life Story (1953), Lucy does the same kind of 'shtick', except that the call is a set-up by Ricky to trick Lucy, who desperately wants a job at the club (and a show-business career). Back to Chuckie Lee, later in the story, after a successful modeling shoot, he is hired to do a TV commercial for a combination peanut butter and jelly ("in the same jar") product called Snackleberry. His rehearsal (without the product) goes fine. When it comes to shooting the actual commercial, however, he tastes the stuff for the first time, and finds it is revolting - with all the facial contortions that go along with disgusting food. The scene is an almost-literal re-enactment of Lucy's commercial for Vitameatavegamin in
Lucy Does a TV Commercial (1952) - except the peanut butter concoction has no alcohol, and Chuckie Lee doesn't get tipsy, of course.