When Sophia comes home to find The Girls, Dorothy's son Michael and his new fiancée Lorraine, who is black, along with her mother and two aunts - not to mention Blanche and Rose, whose mud-packed faces look for all the world like Al Jolson blackface - she quips, "What is this, a revival of 'Raisin in the Sun'? Besides being funny per se, it is also likely an "inside" compliment to Virginia Capers, the actress who plays Lorraine's mother, as she won the 1974 Tony award as Best Lead Actress in a Musical for her performance in 'Raisin', the musical based on 'A Raisin in the Sun'. Also, the first name of Michael's fiancée - Lorraine - could well be a "nod" to the author of 'A Raisin in the Sun', Lorraine Hansberry.
Michael's age in this episode is given as 23. The actor who plays him was 33 in 1988, the year the episode aired.
Rosalind Cash plays a character who is age 44. In actuality, Cash was approaching 50 years of age when appearing on "The Golden Girls" (1985).
In June 2020, Hulu pulled this episode from streaming at the request of Disney-ABC Domestic Television, the show's distributor, over the scene where Blanche and Rose wear mud masks that resemble blackface. This was one of several high-profile streaming shows that removed episodes with blackface-related content during the same week. The episode has since been put back on Hulu.
Lyn Hamilton, Trudy, is a regular guest star in the Waltons. She is the one who said ,"she is glad it's true."