When Mr. Lautenschlager angrily slams the radio down, his wife says, "A regular Marlon Brando. Ever since he saw that picture, he don't like radios no more." This is an allusion to a scene in the 1951 movie "A Streetcar Named Desire" in which Marlon Brando's character, Stanley Kowalski, throws a radio out a window. Wally Cox and Marlon Brando were lifelong friends.
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