Penelope Spheeris said in an interview that working with the Weinsteins on this made her want to stop making mainstream Hollywood movies. She thought, "How the fuck did I get here? What am I doing? I don't want to do this anymore. I don't want to work in this movie business anymore."
"Movin' On Up", the theme song from The Jeffersons (1975), is playing as Daryl walks into his building. The doorman that he tips is played by Sherman Helmsley, who portrayed George Jefferson on "The Jeffersons".
The exterior shot of David Spade's fraternity was filmed at the Delta Tau Delta house at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ. The letters on the front stairs were painted on for the movie and re-painted after filming.
Penelope Spheeris said producers the Weinsteins kept rewriting the script over and over, and it kept getting worse. At one point, she said to Bob Weinstein, "I don't think this works," and he said, "This is my fucking money and I'm going to spend it any fucking way I want to." The movie ended up bombing and Spheeris said they blamed her, adding, "And as a woman, when you do a movie that doesn't do well, then you're done. You're in director jail."
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