Archie has tickets to the Mets game, so to get out of dinner with the Jeffersons, he comes up with a plan saying Edith has a bad ankle. All the hassle could have been easily avoided if Archie simply said he had tickets to the game, Edith didn't know that when she made the date, and the Bunkers would reschedule for another time. (Note: Edith was worried that the Jeffersons might get the wrong idea if she told them Archie couldn't make it).
Actor Mel Stewart plays Henry Jefferson, Lionel's uncle and Louise Jefferson's brother-in-law, in this episode. The Jeffersons (Lionel's parents, Louise and George) are supposed to come to the Bunkers' to have dinner, but George refuses to "sit down with whitey", so Louise brings Henry instead, passing him off as George at first, but later admitting the substitution. At the end of the episode, however, his credit reads, "Mel Stewart as George Jefferson".