Bruce Willis made Đương Đầu Với Thử Thách (1988) while starring in this show. By the time the series ended, the movie was available on VHS. In one of the last episodes, Willis and a love interest walk past a video rental store while an employee tears a "Die Hard" poster down from the window.
The third season became notorious for repeated delays and a large number of "filler" episodes that ignored the primary story arc, including: a Christmas story, a retrospective show, a Shakespeare spoof, and an episode focused on Miss DiPesto. The scheduling problems happened because Bruce Willis broke his collarbone skiing, and Cybill Shepherd was pregnant with twins. One episode starts with a mock newsreel announcing the behind-the-scenes problems.
Because of the trademark scenes in which two or more characters are talking at length simultaneously, the scripts were typically two to three times as long as a script for a similar hour-long drama.
Cybill Shepherd and Bruce Willis did not get along during production. Willis' success with Đương Đầu Với Thử Thách (1988) further strained their relationship. Willis became a major film star, and bristled at being the second-billed actor on a TV series. He also resented Shepherd, blaming her for many of the shooting delays.
Cybill Shepherd was often shot with diffusion disks so she would look as leading ladies often did in films of the 1940s.