When Max puts the bite on Benny for five bucks for his wife, he says he was going to ask for ten, but the President froze her salary. President Richard M. Nixon signed the Economic Stabilization Act of 1970 to stabilize rents, prices, rents, wages, salaries, interest rates, dividends and similar transfers. The law was dissolved in 1974.
Rocky tells Lucy that an undercover hat check girl who was found out was tied to the propeller of an ocean liner "like one of those wristwatch commercials." This is a reference to the Timex TV commercials in which a waterproof watch was strapped to a boat propeller, submerged in a water tank, proving that it "takes a licking and keeps on ticking."