In one episode, J.T. tells Frank that "If you're watching Baywatch with your wife, you know nothing about marriage." Brandon Call played Hobie Buchannon in the first season of Baywatch (1989).
Frank ('Patrick Duffy') is doing a crossword puzzle and trying to think of a 6 letter word for a city in Texas (Dallas.) Dallas (1978) was the show on which Patrick Duffy starred prior to Step By Step.
At one point Carol says that Jean-Luc looks like Barbara Eden from "I Dream of Jeannie", Jean-Luc replies "and You look like Chrissy from 'Three's Company'." Suzanne Somers played Chrissy in Three's Company (1977).
In the opening credits the amusement park is intended to be in Wisconsin on the shores of Lake Michigan. However at the end of the credits the body of water can be see to have rather large waves on a calm day. These waves are much too large for Lake Michigan in the absence of a storm.