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General[]
- First appearance of the full Johanssen family, including Gerald's older brother, Jamie O, and younger sister, Timberly.
- First appearance, though off-screen, of Mr. Purdy.
- Ernie collects the "last brick" of buildings he demolishes.
- This episode is "dated", sort of; when Grandpa reminds Arnold to collect the rent from the boarders, he says it's the "first day of the month". Additionally, when Arnold and Gerald are re-tiling Mr. Hyunh's kitchen, there is a calendar that says "May". Therefore, one can assume that the episode takes place on May 1st (or June 1st assuming Mr. Hyunh had yet to change his calendar).
- During her argument with Oskar, Suzie claims that she could have married an orthodontist named Joey Stevens on the advice of her mother.
- When Arnold and Gerald were going to sleep on top of Arnold's house, Arnold's pillow was not behind Arnold's head or above his arms in a close-up of him.
Production Notes[]
- Mr. Purdy, although uncredited, was voiced by writer/story editor Joseph Purdy.
- In the exterior shot of the boarding house, Suzie's dialogue comes from the episode "Arnold as Cupid", and Ernie's dialogue as well as Grandpa's off-key rendition of "My Darling Clementine" from the episode "Door #16".
- The audio of Pookie saying "Kill the umpire!" is reused from "The Baseball".
Continuity[]
- Timberly sings the Wally song at the dinner table for the first time. The second time she sings it is in "Ransom" when she’s watching her favorite TV show Wally.
Cultural References[]
- Timberly calls herself "the Pink Ranger", a reference to the character of Kimberly the Pink ranger from mid-90's TV series Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers.
- Arnold tells Gerald before walking into the boarding house that "the things you see may confuse or even frighten you" and "you've been warned", an almost word-for-word parody of the opening of the 1931 James Whale film adaptation of Frankenstein.
- Oskar claims to have auditioned for Man of La Mancha, and sings a snippet of "The Impossible Dream".
- Just before Arnold and Gerald collect the Kokoshkas' rent, Oskar and Suzie can be heard arguging through their closed door. Although it isn’t extremely clear, Oskar can be heard saying, in an effort to conjure an excuse for not doing a task, that his left foot hurts because it was run over by a tank when he was running from "the army". Given his age and origin country, and regardless if he is lying about his injury, Oskar could be referencing the Invasion of Czechoslovakia, which took place in 1968.