In the old days of Hollywood, actors would slip in the names of other famous people that they knew and had worked with. This was called "an inside joke." Such was the case on this show when Otis Campbell (Hal Smith), was acting as a crossing guard and had trouble with an uncooperative school boy explained below. The setup: back in the 1940s Hal (along with Neil Reagan) was an announcer on Warner Brothers Radio station, KFWB. He worked for almost ten years, on both the "Jimmie Jackson Show" and "Jimmie Jackson's Memory Lane" show. Both Hal and Jimmie Jackson remained close friends until Hal's untimely death in 1994. The gag: Hal knew Jimmie watched "The Andy Griffith Show" and on this particular episode Otis was assigned to be a school crossing guard and as such ran into problems with the uncooperative boy mentioned above. It seems this boy would not let Otis help him across the street. Of course this caused a stir and Otis ran ahead to the Sheriff's Office to tell Barney, with tongue in cheek, that "Little Jimmie Jackson" was a trouble maker.
As Barney is leaving the courthouse to check on the traffic jam, the street appears empty when looking out the door. However, when the shot goes outside, there is obviously a traffic jam right outside the courthouse doors.
This marks the first of George Lindsey's regular appearances as Goober after having made his debut in the previous seasons "Fun Girls." His part was a thinly veiled attempt to replace his cousin Gomer's naive but sincere country boy type, after Jim Nabors left the series to star in his own spin-off, "Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C."
This episode marks the only time in the series that Otis Campbell is seen inside Floyd's Barbershop. It's one of the few times that Otis and Floyd share a scene together.
Andy (Andy Griffith) is offered a job at a detective agency in Raleigh. Throughout the episode he mentions several times how nice Raleigh is, but no specifics are given. Raleigh is the capital of North Carolina and at the time of this episode, it had a population around 110,000.