Diff'rent Strokes

The late Royce D. (no relation to Christina) Applegate went on to star as "CPO Manilow Crocker" on the TV series SeaQuest DSV which also starred another late great, Jonathan Brandis. Interestingly, Royce was born on Christmas Day 1939 and died on New Year's Day 2003... ...Ronnie Troup is the daughter of late Emergency! stars Bobby Troup and Julie London.

It is revealed in this episode that Pearl suffers from epilepsy.

When Philip was telling Maggie about The Gooch, he told her he was held back another year in the 6th grade. However, in Season 5's The Cricket, Arnold said the Gooch passed on to 7th grade.

It is mentioned in this episode that Willis and his longtime girlfriend, Charlene, had broken up.

Arnold tells Sam about his teddy bear he used to sleep with. However in this episode he calls the bear Fo Fo, in the episode "Goodbye Dolly" the bear's name was Homer.

Danny Cooksey sings but does NOT breakdance in real life; that's a stunt double we see.

Le Tari makes his final appearance as Dudley's father on the series.

Arnold tries to cover up the hole in his sweater by putting his hand over it. He tells Dudley that he can't walk around all day with his hand on his hip because people would talk, but he had his hand high up on his stomach.

Art reflects life as Le Tari would die from lung cancer three years after this episode aired.

Arnold tells Hans how he got in trouble for soaking someone with a water balloon. This is a reference to the episode "The Spanking", but he dropped a water-bomb on the matinence man.

Lilyan Chauvin is well-known to horror-movie fans as the evil and brutal "Mother Superior" in the controversial sleeper Silent Night, Deadly Night. Chauvin later portrayed yet another nun in Richard Danus's No Place to Hide.

Shannon Presby was one of two harrassed (that's the mild term) teens who strike back, STRAW DOGS-style, at local bully James Spader in the suspense yarn THE NEW KIDS. The other vengeful adolescent was a pre-FULL HOUSE Lori Loughlin.

It's hard to believe Mr. Drummond noticed he belonged to an all-men's club but not an all-white men's club.

Meeno Peluce is the brother of Soleil Moon "Punky Brewster" Frye; their father is Virgil Frye. Meeno starred as one of James Brolin and Margot Kidder's three children in the 1979 horror epic The Amityville Horror.

Kari Michaelson is best known as "Katie Kanisky" on TV's Gimme a Break! Her co-stars included Joey Lawrence, along with not one but three late greats: Dolph Sweet, John Hoyt, and Nell Carter. Kari was engaged to a fourth late great, Andy Gibb, who had guest-starred as himself on Gimme a Break!...Claude (no relation to James) Earl Jones is best known for such movies as Dark Night of the Scarecrow, in which he played one of four ill-fated vigilantes (whose ringleader was Charles Durning).

Robert Ginty is best known for such movies as THE EXTERMINATOR 1 and 2. He is the husband of PRIVATE BENJAMIN actress Lorna Patterson.

Towards the middle of the episode, when Mr Drummond is on the phone speaking to Mr. Haskell. Watch Gary Coleman. He constantly keeps looking towards the right of the screen quite a few times. His last look, he makes a strange face towards and squints his eyes towards something.

The music in Abraham's funeral service is a traditional hymn, "Just a Closer Walk with Thee."

Why would Willis be put in charge of Kimberly's slumber party if Kimberly is older than he is?

Soon-Teck Oh is best known for such movies as The Man With the Golden Gun, Steele Justice and Missing in Action 2...Curtis Wong is best known as one of the 12 "Disco-Mouseketeers" from The New Mickey Mouse Club; others include Mindy (sister of Corey) Feldman, the late Angel Florez, The Facts of Life stars Lisa Whelchel and Julie Pieckarski, and the late Scott Craig.