Julie McCullough and Judie Aronson, who play Trina and Shelly here, each appeared on Growing Pains. McCullough played Julie the nanny, and later Mike Seaver's fianceé. Aronson played Cindy, a classmate in Mike's acting class.
Michele Abrams who plays the mean girl Amanda Peyser also appeared in the Buffy The Vampire Slayer movie (1992) with Luke Perry.
Judie Aronson (Shelly) is a Friday The 13th alumni having starred in The Final Chapter and was also in Weird Science. Julie McCullough (Trudy) was in The Blob remake of 1988 with 90210's Douglas Emerson (Scott Scanlon).
Luke Perry does not appear in this episode.