Continuity mistake: The dog that Harry brings home suddenly has a collar after Dick sets him down on the table. (00:02:40)
Continuity mistake: When the dog is on the table, the book on the right of the table changes position between shots without anyone touching it.
Continuity mistake: When Nina asks when Dick's birthday, is the papers on the back of her clipboard change position between shots.
Continuity mistake: In the scene where the F.B.I. storm Dick's house, Charlotte's sleeves change length (i.e. being pulled up or like normal) throughout the entire scene. (00:20:00 - 00:20:30)
Continuity mistake: Dick hands Nina a box full of dishes and asks for them to be cleaned. She then drops the box on the ground where it lands upright. All of the dishes remain in the box. The next time it's seen a few seconds later, it's suddenly on its side with dishes scattered across the floor. None of the characters touch it and there is no sound indicating that it magically tipped over by itself.
Continuity mistake: Mrs. Dubcek says that she doesn't allow dogs because she is allergic to dogs, but in a later episode she claims that she doesn't allow dogs because she has 6 cats buried in the back yard.
Answer: The writers often have Dick respond to Mary with a retort that he thinks is in the common vernacular but makes a mistake in wording that is often funny. Dick seems to be imputing a criticism from Mary and responds with a corruption of the more common "I'm going to wear your ass like a hat!" I doubt it has anything to do with owing taxes. Probably just one of the writers assuming a common regional phrase would be universally recognized.
That makes total sense. I always interpreted it as perhaps snowshoes are an expensive item, and given that he was blaming Mary for his newfound financial woes, he was equating her living off his generosity and used snowshoeing as a metaphor.
Phaneron