Love and the Advice Column/Love and the Bathtub/Love and the Fullback/Love and the Guru/Love and the Physical

One of the segments here, "Love and the Advice Columnist," is the only shared credit of actors Herb Edelman, who played Officer Murray Greshler (aka "Murray the Cop") in the movie version of The Odd Couple (1968), and Al Molinaro who played the same role in the popular original TV series version, The Odd Couple (1970). The role was originally played on Broadway by Nathaniel Frey, who passed away just over a month after the series premiered on ABC in 1970, but a few years earlier had been a castmate of Edelman in the unsold TV pilot Kibbee Hates Fitch (1965). John Schuck would later play Murray in the short-lived '80s reboot series The New Odd Couple (1982) and had appeared in a different episode of Love, American Style (1969), the third segment of Love and the Clinic/Love and the Perfect Wedding/Love and the President/Love and the Return of Raymond (1972), later also working with Edelman in an episode of McMillan & Wife (1971) titled Once Upon a Dead Man (1971) and again in a continuing storyline in the series St. Elsewhere (1982). Garry Marshall wrote numerous "Love, American Style" segments but neither of the aforementioned ones, but Marshall would later create both of those earlier versions of the "Odd Couple" TV show, serving as executive producer and as a writer, and serve as an executive consultant for the later 21st-century reboot series The Odd Couple (2015) which did not have a recognizable version of the Murray character.

Referenced in Alltel: Bathtub (2001)