Rose apologizes to Father Leahy for the series Helltown being cancelled. Helltown was a show the ran on NBC in 1985 for thirteen episodes. It starred Robert Blake as a Catholic priest in a crime ridden neighborhood in Los Angeles.
When Father Frank Leahy arrives at the girls' house for dinner, Dorothy tells him that she looks, "... like the mother of a Solid Gold dancer." Solid Gold was a music show that ran from 1980 to 1988 and was known to feature female dancers wearing bright dance outfits similar to the blouse that Dorothy wears to the dinner.
Fourteen years before this episode aired, John McMartin (Father Frank Leahy) appeared on an episode of "The Bob Newhart Show" as a Reverend who decides to leave the ministry.