Adjusted for inflation, the $20 Gidget pays for the single rose would equal approximately $185 in the year 2023.
Helen Twelvetrees, Clara Bow, Rudolph Valentino are the names of movie actors whose careers, let alone they themselves, were dead long before Gidget and Larue buy the map to the stars from Desiree.
The premise for the story in this episode is a spoof of the impact the so-called English invasion had on mostly teenagers in America when The Beatles and other long-haired British bands, such as The Rolling Stones and The Animals, first arrived in 1964 to a groundswell of screaming and adoring fans.
This is the only appearance Greg Mullavey makes in this series. His acting career brought him to multiple guest and supporting appearances in a many more TV series, as well as in many movies, over the course of seven decades. He is perhaps best remembered for his regular spot as Mary Hartman's husband in the Norman Lear production of the soap opera spoofs Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman (1976) and Forever Fernwood (1977).
Gidget impresses a shopkeeper by dropping the name of Elizabeth Montgomery who starred in the long running Screen Gems production Bewitched.