The designer of the expensive shirt Theo buys is Gordon Gartrelle, a Cosby Show writer and producer.
Kadeem Hardison, who plays Theo's friend, Phillip Washington, in this episode, later plays Dwayne Cleophus Wayne (Initially the potential love interest of Lisa Bonet's character, Denise) in The Cosby Show spinoff, A Different World.
Cliff's remark about a boy "onstage with his four brothers" was a reference to pop superstar Michael Jackson, formerly the youngest member of the Jackson 5.
Although the whole premise of this episode is that Cliff doesn't want his son Theo to have an expensive shirt and says, "No 14-year-old boy should have a $95 shirt", ironically Theo is seen wearing a Mid-Sized Datejusts Rolex watch throughout the series worth over 5,000 dollars.