Someone wrote: GO TIGERS!, on the blackboard in the pool room. The 1984 World Series was played between the San Diego Padres and the Detroit Tigers.
Carol Kane is the guest star. She was on the show Taxi by the same producers.
The title is a parody of the proverb - A stitch in time saves nine.
Sam goes out with a mentally unstable woman played by Carol Kane. On the first season, Diane went out with a mentally unstable Andy, played by Derek McGrath. Both Kane and McGrath appeared in The Last Detail.
Carol Kane's hair, makeup and dingy gray sailor costume are clearly inspired by the morbid depictions in the cartoons of Charles Addams. She would later appear in the gothic horror comedy Addams Family Values (1993), based on the characters of Charles Addas.