The croquet ball does not break the drinking-glass when it lands in it, yet the sound of shattering glass is heard.
Fester is trying to get the dog some hair as quickly as possible, so he would not waste the old man's hair by leaving big tufts of it behind after he gives him a Mohawk haircut.
Miss Snooty Redhead brags to Wednesday that her people are relatives of the second U.S. president, John Quincy Adams. JQA was the sixth president; his father, John Adams, was the second president.