When Fred was making joke fortune cookie fortunes, he reads one as, "You will meet a tall dark stranger. Give him what he wants." This stems from Redd Foxx's stand-up routine where he said the only fortune cookie that ever told him the truth was one that told him, "You will meet a tall dark stranger." After he paid his check and left the restaurant, "a nigger stuck [him] up."
The Funai family offered Fred Sanford $20,000 to $27,000. This would be the equivalent to $125,893 and $169,956 in 2024. The median home price for a house in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles in 2024 is around $530,191.
All four actors who played members of the Funai family - Helen Funai (Miss Funai), Yuki Shimoda (Mr. Funai), Bob Okazaki (Grandfather Masaki), and Nathan Jung (Saburyo) - had already appeared or would later appear on different episodes of "M*A*S*H" (1972).