Hooterville High's football team is known as the Hooterville Hornets.
Mr. Clean sponsored this episode, and a picture of a Mr. Clean bottle is superimposed on the screen twice during closing credits.
While searching for his wooden Indian, Uncle Joe (Carson) lets on that it had been carved from oak by his "great-great-great uncle Kit Carson." Christopher Houston "Kit" Carson was a legendary frontiersman during the first half of the 19th century whose life and legacy helped shape perceptions of the American Old West that in turn were embodied in Hollywood Westerns up to the time of Petticoat Junction (1963). Not coincidentally, Edgar Buchanan, Smiley Burnette, and Rufe Davis all had long careers appearing in many of those Westerns, with Buchanan appearing in Shane (1953), a landmark Western that helped to change earlier popular perceptions of the Old West.