At the time of completion, the Sears Tower was the tallest building in the world.
This episode ends with an empty Bundy house where a radio has been left on. The announcer on the radio explains that in a sad and bizarre story a tall red headed woman and her two sobbing kids had to be talked down from the top of the Sears Tower from which they were planning to jump off of, a first for the tower. The announcer claims they were all sobbing "He sells shoes. He sells shoes." This was in response to Peg and the kids learning that Al did the noble and honest thing and did not rob Steve's bank of a million dollars.