Even though the credits changed for the Thanksgiving story line, many of the later installments went back to the original opening.
This being fiction, the movies Jim reports as playing in a nearby theater are appropriately bogus in that Prairie Justice (1938) starred Bob Baker, not Hoot Gibson. Frontier Justice (1935) starred Hoot Gibson. The Gold Diggers of 1939 references a Warner Bros. franchise that produced Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933), Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935), and Gold Diggers of 1937 (1936). There was no Gold Diggers version for 1939.
The Andersons' phone number is Springfield 2274.
Jim says they had a dog nine years ago, and that was the last time he and Margaret had a vacation.