Nominated for the 1980-81 Emmy for Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series
Winner of the 1980-81 Emmy for Outstanding Directing in a Comedy Series
The painting hanging in the bar scene of the Electrical Outlet is the same painting Bobby Wheeler purchased in Art Work (1980).
At twenty minutes in, there is a nighttime shot of New York. The theaters are showing "Beyond and Back", the Cinerama II is showing "Oklahoma!" and the Pussycat is showing "The Jade Pussycat", which means that the shot was taken on Broadway near 49th Street, circa 1979.
The song Alex and the others dance to in the bar is called "Do the Boogaloo" by (then) German disco duo Quango & Sparky, who only released one album in 1980.