Chris Farley uses the same football play with the kids at the youth center - "32 belly option" - as he did when he and Rob Lowe went cow-tipping in Tommy Boy (1995).
Fred Wolf, who did punch-up work on Tommy Boy (1995), claimed the studio told him to "deliver a finished script by midnight on Sunday, the last day Chris was contractually allowed to get out of the movie. If I didn't have a finished script, any finished script, they were going to sue me." Wolf wrote 45 pages in a weekend, and dropped the script off at Paramount 15 minutes before his deadline.
The security guards behind Mike at the 'Rock the Vote' scene are Chris Farley's real-life brothers, Kevin P. Farley and John Farley.
The cabin used on the outskirts of town is the same cabin used as Jill's cabin in Joe Dirt, another movie starring David Spade.
The combination of bright lights on-set and working under sunlight while making this film damaged David Spade's eyes permanently. Spade says of his condition: "I have to wear a hat even indoors and flashes in particular freak me out. I even have to make them turn down the lights in the make-up trailers. I've become such a pain in the butt with this light-sensitive thing, it's a wonder they don't just shoot me!"