During the party in his honor, Mr Howell Jim Backus joked, "I haven't felt so wonderful since I foreclosed my mortgage on the city of Cleveland." Backus himself was born in Cleveland, Ohio.
At 12:47, Mr. Howell speaks in a Ronald Colman manner saying, "Ah, this thing I do is far, far greater. I have a rendezvous with a famous barricade." He is paraphrasing the famous line "It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known." This is an allusion to the novel A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens and also to the Ronald Colman movie version of A Tale of Two Cities.
Mr. Howell (Jim Backus) leaves The Skipper (Alan Hale, Jr) 40 acres of downtown Denver. At the time this episode aired Denver had a population of about 500,000 and was the 23td largest city in the United States.
The title is based on the common expression: "Where there's a will, there's a way."