The mention of "Sylvia" during A Date with Your Family (1950) refers to how the poet and novelist Sylvia Plath committed suicide by sticking her head in an oven and dying of carbon monoxide poisoning.
During "A Date With Your Family," the mother is called "Madame Defarge," a character in Charles Dickens' novel "A Tale of Two Cities."
"Bob the A-Bomb" has the designation "MJP" and "2-27" on his side. This is an in-joke on Mary Jo Pehl (MJP), who's birthday is February 27.
This episode is on the Volume 38 DVD Box Set of Mystery Science Theater 3000.