This episode's Vaudeville Afterpiece is titled "Gracie Won't Do Jokes."
At the climax of the episode, producers conspire to rig a quiz show so that Gracie will answer a question correctly and win the $100,000 prize in order to please viewers. This scenario, which aired in February 1958, foreshadowed and closely mirrored a real-life major scandal that would erupt a few months later, between August 1958 and January 1959, when several popular TV game shows were revealed to have rigged the results by feeding the correct answers to contestants in order to retain viewers.