They attempt to pull strings with the delivery driver, Corporal Bannister, in exchange for pills (placebos sent to the hospital in error) to help him control his nerves in advance of a date.
The Moon is Blue was released in the USA on July 8, 1953, only nineteen days before the armistice for the Korean War was signed.
The episode plot suggests the action took place over a considerably longer time, and there is no mention of the end of the war being in sight.
Harry Morgan, who played Colonel Potter on M*A*S*H, has a small role early in the film State Fair as a ring-toss operator.
Prohibition agents who worked indirectly for the United States Bureau of Internal Revenue, a plot common to the 1950s Appalachian-themed cartoon comics, Li'l Abner, and Barney Google and Snuffy Smith.