The film contains joking references to several of Mansfield's other roles, including "The Girl Can't Help It" (1956; also directed by Tashlin), "Kiss Them for Me" (1957), and "The Wayward Bus" (1957). The book Mansfield reads in the bathtub scene is "Peyton Place" (1956) by Grace Metalious, which became a feature film and a popular TV series that is claimed to be the forerunner of primetime soap operas. The buxom characters in the book were claimed to have been inspired by Mansfield.