Influences for this film include Fullmetal Jacket and Boogie Nights
The first day of shooting is at the Sav-More store, the retail scenes. Michael, the producer and writer, had to call off work just to be at the shoot.
Jeremy was telling Mike about a guy named Brent he worked with, who took his job extremely seriously, so the character of Happy is based off him.
The House Party scene was filmed at JR's house. JR was initially supposed to be the fight scene, with him, Tyler, and Raven fighting on top of a roof, but the shots did not work very well for the film. JR would have ended up falling off the roof and into a dumpster, but it never materialized.
Michael's real roommates were actually AWOL from the navy, as stated by Lushin Kaine