Goober Pyle is referenced in this episode but would not actually appear until Season 4, Episode 27, "Fun Girls."
The characters attended All Souls Church.
The dilapidated bandstand prop was positioned just behind the courthouse building on the 40 Acres backlot. Also, just a little further beyond the Feed and Grain building in the background is the beginning of the country road section of what they called Dexter Street in "Lawman Barney."
The visiting cleric might have been modeled after celebrated NYC minister, Dr. Norman Vincent Peale.