The title is based upon the comic strip Little Orphan Annie, created by Harold Gray and first published on 5 August 1924. The character was adapted for radio, television, stage plays, and movies.
Exidor responds to Mindy regarding acting normally as if he believes he is only person who acts normal and it is the rest of society that is insane.
Baruch De Spinoza (24 November 1632 - 21 February 1677): Was a Dutch philosopher of Portuguese Sephardic Jewish origin. One of the foremost exponents of 17th-century Rationalism and one of the early and seminal thinkers of the Enlightenment and modern biblical criticism including modern conceptions of the self and the universe, he came to be considered "one of the most important philosophers-and certainly the most radical-of the early modern period.
Mork says that if he and Mindy went to Latvia, they could be called Laverne & Shirley (1976), title of another Happy Days (1974) spin-off.