Dennis Day plays an obsessive penny-pincher. Interestingly enough, he was a regular on the Jack Benny Show on radio and TV for over 30 years. In the annals of show business, Jack Benny was renowned as a strict penny-pincher, although those who knew him claimed that this was just an act as he was a very generous man.
The Hitman (Jack Lambert) refers to a TV show where a lady uses a frozen leg of lamb to kill her husband, in reference to Mary Maloney (Barbara Bel Geddes) in the previous episode Lamb to the Slaughter (1958).
The $33,000 in Alexander's bank accounts would be equivalent to almost $340,000 in 2023.