The Jeffersons

George Jefferson may be celebrating his 50th birthday, but actor Sherman Hemsley just turned 42 when this episode aired. In comparison, Isabel Sanford (Louise Jefferson) was actually 62 years old when this episode aired.

George mentions in this episode he was nine years old when his father died. However, in the season 4 episode "The Camp-Out" George tells Marcus that his father died when he was ten years old.

Notice towards the end, Louise's earring falls off. Then a little bit later she has it on again.

When Florence grabs the wallet of Billy Dee Williams and check his driver's license...she drops it on her way to the balcony to scream that he is in their apartment. He doesn't retrieve from the floor before he leaves.

In George's dream, he is said to have passed away and is being remembered by his friends and family. In real life though, Sherman Hemsley (George) outlived every main cast member appearing in this episode except for Marla Gibbs (Florence).

George dreams the President of the United States in 1996 was Amy Carter, but in reality the President of the United States was actually Bill Clinton who ran for 2 terms.

In real life, cast member Roxie Roker (Helen Willis) did not live until 1996. Sadly, she passed away from breast cancer on December 2, 1995.

When Florence's mother is sitting on the sofa with George, the door leading to the back bedrooms is open. The camera flashes to Louise and then the door is closed. In a split second, it flashes back and the door is open again.

In the third season episode, "A Case Of Black and White," Louise stated that Florence's mother was dead.

Riddle: How can a martini pitcher be unbreakable one moment and breakable the next? Well, if you look very closely, you'll see two martini pitchers on the bar. When Tom returns the pitcher to the bar, he places it to the right of the other pitcher. Toward the end of the episode, George gets the pitcher on the left!

After Tom and Helen grab pillows off the sofa, the brown one is the only one that's left on the sofa. A few seconds later, Helen is holding the brown one and the yellow one is left on the sofa. Then it switches back to the brown one being on the sofa, then back to the yellow one being there.

In the final scene of this episode, George arrives home with a ticket for a cruise to the Bahamas for Mother Jefferson. Louise mistakenly thinks it's for her and tells George that she gets sea sick. In the first season, the Jeffersons are planning a cruise and there is no mention of Louise's sea sickness.

Louise stated that Florence's mother was dead. However, we met her in the following season's episode, 'The Visitors'.

When George arrives at the bar, he orders a scotch on the rocks, but the waiter brings him a scotch with no ice, and he doesn't question it.

Keene Curtis (who plays the Judge in this episode) is best known for his role as restaurant owner John Allan Hill on the hit show Cheers.

It is stated that Lionel's middle initial is 'W'.

In this episode, Louise stated her father's name was Wesley. When we see him in "Louise's Father", his name is Harold.

Tom and Helen challenge George to name one friend he has, and he can't think of anybody. Apparently he's forgetting all about Roy Simms, his good buddy from Harlem who appeared in "Former Neighbors" in the previous season. How could George forget about him?

The outfits that the Sherman Hemsley, Isabel Sanford, and Zara Cully wear in this episode are the same exact outfits they would wear when featured on the front cover of the January 1976 issue of Ebony Magazine which was a month after the airing of this episode.

The entire cast of the Jeffersons appeared on the front cover of the October 23, 1975 issue of Jet Magazine which was two days before this episode was aired on CBS.