When Carol is dancing like a native girl in a suggestive costume, trying to get Wilbur to redecorate in Hawaiian Modern, Wilbur tells her, "Sorry, Tondelayo." Wilbur is referring to Austrian-American Hedy Lamarr's iconic role as native girl Tondelayo in White Cargo (1942). Like Hedy Lamarr, Carol is a white woman "going native" to portray a woman of color.