Grant Williams's (Dick Prince) most memorable role of his career was starring as Scott Carey in the Hugo Award-winning science fiction film The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957).
The USD 50,000.00 offer from the Reliable Oil company, in 1964, would be worth approximately USD 407,159.68 in 2018.
During the romance scenes between Dick Prince and Marilyn, strings play the theme to the song "Someday My Prince Will Come." This song was written by Larry Morey and Frank Churchill for the Walt Disney 1937 animated movie "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs."
The episode's title is a reference to 'Sleeping Beauty' (French: La Belle au bois dormant), a classic fairy tale about a beautiful princess, a sleeping enchantment, and an attractive prince. The tale was originally published by Charles Perrault in 'Histoires ou Contes du Temps Passé' in 1697. The first film adaptation of the tale was The Sleeping Princess (1939), a Walter Lantz Productions animated short.
When Herman is skeptical of Grandpa's gasoline pill, Grandpa says, "Herman, don't be such a doubting Thomas." A doubting Thomas is someone who refuses to believe something without direct personal experience - a reference to the Gospel of John's depiction of the Apostle Thomas, who, in John's account, refused to believe Jesus had been resurrected.