Last appearance of Bud's best friend Claude Messner.
Betty's pony tail finally returns in this episode. Betty had short hair beginning in season four in the episode "The Awkward Hero." She is not seen with longer hair again until this one. In an interview Elinor Donahue gave, she states the producers gave her a clip on pony tail that she was able to keep once the series ended.
When given the note from Bud, which he wrote in French, Joyce confesses that she can't read the French. The irony is that in 1959, the year this show original aired, Roberta Shore, who plays Joyce, appeared in Disney's The Shaggy Dog (1959), playing the role of Franceska Andrassy, whose first language is French.