In this episode, The Balladeer, Waylon Jennings, issues the line "Boss was as lonely as ol' Waylon Jennings at the Country Music Association awards." In 1980 when this episode was aired, Waylon Jennings had released the album Music Man which contained the single version of "Good Ole Boys" the theme from The Dukes of Hazzard. Neither the album nor the single were nominated at that year's CMA awards in any catagory.
This is the only Christmas-themed episode of the series. However, the animated spin-off The Dukes (1983) featured another, that was even more directly inspired by A Christmas Carol: A Dickens of a Christmas (1983).