25-year-old Diane Sayer played Marlene, Wally's date. Wally and Marlene were to go to a movie but go to a bar instead. Marlene orders two beers, which Wally pays for. Wally, however, is uncomfortable with being in the bar. He does not drink the beer and leaves Marlene, at her request, alone in the bar and goes home. It is one of the few times Wally is seen driving his older convertible car. It is the only time Wally is in a bar with an alcoholic beverage in front of him.
17-year-old Wally actually visits a bar and purchases beer in this episode.
When Gilbert and Beaver go down to the Madison Theatre to spy on Wally as he tries to get a date with the box office attendant, they talk in front of a poster for the current attraction, "Island of Fear." At the bottom of the poster is the note, "A Saltair-Bundy Release." Saltair Avenue and Bundy Drive are mostly residential streets in the Brentwood section of Los Angeles, California, West of Hollywood and Beverly Hills. Bundy actually intersects with the winding Saltair at two different corners, one North the other South of Sunset Boulevard. It is likely a neighbourhood where some members of the Beaver production staff would have lived.
Although Marlene said she dropped out of [high] school two years ago, Diane Sayer, who played the role, turned 25 six days before this episode aired.
When June shows Ward the newspaper story titled "Teenagers Elope Over Weekend," an insert shot shows June's thumb holding a page that obviously has been cut-and-pasted by the props department. First, the one-paragraph text of the "Elope" story is a larger type than all the other text on the page, and the text after the paragraph has nothing to do with the elopement. Elsewhere on the page, full paragraphs of text are duplicated in different places. On the left, a paragraph beginning with "Such nuggets are not lacking . . ." re-appears in the middle of the page just above the "Elope" story and two paragraphs beginning with "At the coming election . . ." appear both on the left and right of the "Elope" story.