In a conversation with Katie, Uncle Charley brings up the name of actress Lilyan Tashman who died of cancer in 1934 at the age of thirty-seven. Uncle Charley is comparing Ernie's new "girlfriend" Rita, who is using him, to Tashman, renowned for portraying beautiful villainesses.
Ernie who is so smart that he is asked to tutor a fellow student in match, butchered the pronunciation of the word Pythagorean when he described the Pythagorean theory