First credited appearance for Teena Marie who plays the little girl tap dancer. As an adult she would become a chart-topping R&B singer in the 1980s.
Drysdale addresses the dean as Dean Emerson, but he's listed as "Dean Cromwell" in the end credits. The latter is a local joke, as that was the name of USC's long-time track and field coach, but apparently the script was changed at the last moment and the credits weren't fixed.
Features two performers who would go on to become the first white women to record for R&B-oriented Motown Records: Irene Ryan and Teena Marie.
Jed's diploma is dated 30 December 1964, although this
episode originally aired two months earlier.