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According to Brooks, the character of Rookie Carroca also was based on a real person, a Filipino sailor in the U. S. Navy who was his neighbor in Brooklyn.

Much like Alan Brady on The Dick Van Dyke Show, King Kaiser represented Sid Caesar (" Kaiser " is the German equivalent of the Roman title Caesar ).

Selma Diamond, another former Your Show of Shows writer ( who inspired Rose Marie's ' Sally Rogers ' character on The Dick Van Dyke Show ), appears as a costume mistress.