Clean Sweep on the Street: Peter Walsh talks with a little girl named Emma about how her playroom used to be cluttered. He praises her organizing skills after she says that she knows she has to have a place for everything.
The yard sale prizes chosen for the homeowners in this episode were a portrait of Richard given to him from his Mom when he was 13 and favorite lamp of Ellyn's. Ellyn sold $91.50 worth of stuff, as opposed to Richard's $58 and kept her lamp.
Ricard: I just think you're the Simon Cowell of sorting, but that's okay.
Peter: That's the first time I've heard that.
Richard compares organizer Peter Walsh to harsh critic Simon Cowell, a judge on the popular shows American Idol and Pop Idol.
Ellyn: It has been rather hard to use it. It has housed lions and tigers and bears, oh my.
Ellyn quotes Dorothy from the The Wizard of Oz when discussing an unwieldy piece of exercise equipment.
Tava: (holding up mirror) Who's the biggest keeper of them all?
Richard: Ellyn.
The wicked queen in Snow White addressed a talking mirror. She asked it "Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the fairest of them all?" and then get upset when it responded that Snow White was.