The story opens with Ruth auditioning for a part. When the camera turns to show Mallory and her casting assistant, we see that they are wearing long, poofy dresses and big hair-dos, almost looking like characters from "Big Love". That was an eighties look. When Ruth expresses an interest in the part intended for a male actor, Mallory says that the role is going to go to
Steve Guttenberg, an actor who was especially popular in the mid-1980s.