The title comes from Southern Comfort, a blend of whiskey, mango, orange, grape, vanilla, beetroot, sugar, and cinnamon flavors made in the southern United States since 1874.
First appearance of Virgil T. Gillis.
The phrase "Southern comfort" was originally used by Southern slave owners to connote the gracious and easy life style of rich white plantation owners as opposed to the supposedly less genteel lifestyle of slaveless Northern Yankees. In 1874 a fruit and spice flavored liqueur was created and nostalgically named after that lost ideal of antebellum ease.
In this, the final season of the show, minority extras were seen for the first time, usually in scenes at S. Peter Pryor Junior College, in group gatherings or walking around the campus. This is the first episode in which Black extras appeared, in the group of students listening to Virgil T. Gillis singing. Asian extras also can be seen. Minority extras appeared in many of the remaining episodes of the season.