Harlan anxiously awaits the Buster Award nominations. In the real world the highest award in American comics is the Will Eisner Comic Industry Award, called the Eisner Award.
Brett, taking Trisha to the awards ceremony, is formally polite to Bob and Kaye. Trisha says, " Doesn't he do a great Eddie Haskell?" In the 1950s show "Leave It To Beaver" Eddie Haskell was a piece of garbage teenage deliquent who was always obsequiously polite to adults; he was the ultimate insincere toady.