In this February 1979 episode the character Richard Perito (played by Richard Libertini) states he is training for the 1980 Summer Olympics. The 1980 Olympics were boycotted by the United States and 65 other nations to protest the December 24, 1979 Soviet Union (Russia) invasion of Afghanistan.
The quote "There are more things in Heaven and Earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy" was said by Hamlet to Horatio, in William Shakespeare's Hamlet.