The last twenty minutes of the movie was concert footage from Cheech and Chong's then first live performance in four years at the Tuschinski Theatre in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, filmed in September 1982.
The picture was nominated for Worst Picture at the Hastings Bad Cinema Society's 6th Stinkers Bad Movie Awards in 1983.
The name of the movie within a movie was "The Harder They Don't Come". It starred Shel Likkerbottom and Pryor Convictions, the latter being a parody of Richard Pryor's name. The title also was a spoof of Jimmy Cliff's Jamaican film, The Harder They Come (1972).
The aliases that Cheech and Chong became were Mr. Burt and Mr. Dolly, as they are mistaken for Burt Reynolds and Dolly Parton, who at the time had recently co-starred in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982) and were meant to be attending (as the film's story goes) The First Amsterdam Film Festival.