Bernie Mac based his interpretation of the character Dollar Bill on a close family friend who was obsessed with the color green.
Ice Cube, Bernie Mac, Anthony Johnson, Tom Lister Jr., Faizon Love, Michael Clarke Duncan, and Ronn Riser all also appeared in Friday (1995) together.
At one point, there was a scene when Lil Man asked Officer Freeman played by John Amos, "Did you know you look just like the father from Good Times?" Amos did, in fact, play the father in the 1970s sitcom Good Times (1974).
Features a future Oscar winner (Jamie Foxx) and two future Oscar nominees (Terrence Howard and Michael Clarke Duncan) in its cast.