This is the only episode Stephen Talbot's character is named Gilbert Harris. In the other 56 episodes in which he appeared, his name is Gilbert Bates.
As the camera pans across the row of students in the dramatic arts room listening to Gilbert recite, Karen Sue Trent (Penny) glances briefly at the camera.
Some of the students competing for a part in the play recite from famous verse. Gilbert recites from Robert Browning's "Incident of the French Camp"; Vicky recites from Robert Louis Stevenson's "Foreign Children"; Harry recites from Ernest Lawrence Thayer's "Casey at the Bat"; Penny sings the lyrics from the song "Buffalo Gals" written by 'Lubly Fan', a.k.a. John Hodges, a.k.a. William Cool White; and Beaver recites from Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Concord Hymn."
This is the only time in which a "Mrs. Prescott" (Katherine Warren) appears as the school principal with no explanation as to what happened to Mrs. Rayburn, who appeared in the entire rest of the series as Beaver's Principal.