Guest star Sterling Holloway was best known as the voice of Winnie the Pooh. Years later, Hal Smith, who performs as Otis Campbell in this series, would pick up the role. Five years after guest-starring in this episode, Holloway voiced Kaa in The Jungle Book (1967).
This is the last appearance of Will Wright, who played store owner and renowned skinflint, Ben Weaver. Wright died in June, 1962. His character continued with actor Tol Avery picking up the role.
This is the second episode in which Ben Weaver ends up hiring the person he was trying to get Andy to run out of town. Previously, in the episode "Andy Forecloses," he tried to get Lester Scobey evicted from his house.
Bert Miller's customers have to spend as much time and energy convincing him that they *do* want to buy something as they would have spent putting off pushy salesmen that they *don't* want to buy from.