When this first aired on the ABC network, the words Dow chemical and DuPont were muted.
Jonathan Dodd parodies a Chicago 7 radical. Abby Hoffman turned himself in, after several years in hiding, and received scant media attention.
Two weeks earlier, in The Vandal (1978), a character denigrated The San Pedro Beach Bums (1977) as an example of bad television. Stuart Pankin, who guests in this episode, starred in The San Pedro Beach Bums (1977).