Mister Rogers' Neighborhood

Even though Betty Okonak Templeton was married to James Michael Jones in Feb. 1985, people reverted to calling her "Mrs. Templeton" after she and James adopted Carrie Dell. The non-use of "Betty Okonak Templeton Jones" has been viewed with similar disdain within The Mister Rogers Society at Yahoo! and these Episode Guides.
But this episode took Betty Okonak Templeton's name wrong by a further step. WGBH's Descriptive Video Service identified Templeton as "Betty Okonak." That was her birth name, but we never knew her until 1983, after her first husband (Mr. Templeton) passed away.

King Friday XIII may have set his crown aside to go swimming, but…in 1983, King Friday and Queen Sara discussed their crown care: "We wear them all the time." A member of The Mister Rogers Society at Yahoo! wrote, "All the time doesn't always necessarily mean 'all the time.' I'm sure [the King and Queen] at least take them off before they go to bed."

The doctor that Mister Rogers visits in this episode is part of Center City Health Center in Pittsburgh, PA.

The toy doctor's instruments that Mister Rogers uses are part of the 1977 Fisher Price medical kit.

The "neighbors" credits are completely wrong, suggesting David Newell (Mr. McFeely) appeared. Worse, the credits do not mention B. Smith or Justin Miller.

It seems strange that Lady Elaine Fairchilde is afraid of vacuum sweepers, since she had used one at the Museum-Go-Round some four years earlier (in the final week of the 1991-92 season).

Never before or again did Mister Rogers "extended" his singing You Are Special. When he repeats the last half of the lyrics, Rogers has a slight slip of the tongue: "For a s… friendship with me, you see…"

You Are Special © 1967 Fred M. Rogers

Mr. McFeely says, "Takes a lot of people to set this set up." Closed-captioning by WGBH didn't quite understand the sentence, and displayed "SET THIS SETUP."

In playing Mrs. McFeely, Betsy Nadas-Seamans is wearing a dark wig, which was not the case on her last visit on February 23, 1989.

In the tension of the moment, Mayor Maggie calls Lady Elaine's mischievous toy a "toomerang-boomerang-soomerang."

Rogers said he had never made a puppet out of a spoon. Actually, he had. Back in Show 1070, he made a Cornflake S. Pecially puppet out of a wooden spoon (plastic spoons had not been invented yet).

No wonder we can't determine any of the Neighborhood of Make-Believe's cryptic measures without units. Their yardstick (if we can call it that) doesn't have equal increments.

The building from Colonial Williamsburg became a permanent part of the models seen at the beginning and end of each program four days earlier. Properties and set builders wedged the brick building between Brockett's Bakery and Betty Aberlin's Little Theater. But, when we see it for real, the Colonial Williamsburg building is detached.

It surprises Miss Paulifficate that the Trolley shows an artist's rendering of her childhood. What is more stunning is that King Friday XIII and Queen Sara were in shot with young Miss Paulifficate. The royal wedding did not occur until Miss Paulifficate had grown up.

When Lady Aberlin or Robert Troll turns the Trolley upside down, and the Neighborhood of Make-Believe goes upside-down because of it, the rotating picture doesn't keep the Trolley upright at all times. On screen, factoring in SPFX, you can see the Trolley do a full 360-degree pivot.

Mister Rogers brought a painting on the entire Neighborhood of Make-Believe and everyone in it, including Grandpère and the Eiffel Tower. But when he assembles the Make-Believe models, he does not use the Eiffel Tower (its model will not be seen until the last week of shows). Nor would he ever use the figurines of any Make-Believe characters after February 1991.

Even though Henrietta and X supposedly left their shadows at King Friday's castle, if you look carefully as Robert Troll is returning them, X and Henrietta are already casting shadows on their doors!

If you look carefully in this same scene, as Robert Troll is holding up X's shadow to show X, it's casting a shadow of it's own! Since when can shadows cast shadows?!

This would be the last time Officer Clemmons and Mr. Rogers put their feet in a pool of cool water on the side of the porch since episode 1065 (1969)

Chuck Aber moves Miss Paulifficate's cordless phone up or down to match the notes in the song Then Your Heart Is Full Of Love, but at one point, Aber moves the phone one notch down when it should be up.