While discussing relationships with Jenna, Sue Ellen says, "Maybe I saw too many Doris Day movies when I was growing up. She always seemed to know what to do in a romance." In Calamity Jane (1953), one of Day's best known films, Howard Keel (Clayton Farlow) played Wild Bill Hickok, the love interest of the title character.
Omri Katz (John Ross Ewing) and Kellie Martin (Brenda Crane) later played love interests, Stan and Sherry, in Matinee (1993).