| 1 | * BuryYourArt: Rumors have persisted that Bill Cosby bought the television rights to make sure this movie would never appear on television, it made its network television debut on CBS on April 24, 1990. He was unable to get the home video rights, so the movie did receive a [=DVD=] release. |
| 2 | * BoxOfficeBomb: Ultimately, the public listened to Cosby's requests to stay away. Budget, $24 million. Box office, $4,615,255. The UsefulNotes/GoldenRaspberryAward founder [[https://awardswatch.com/interview-razzies-founder-john-wilson/ said]] that "we were probably half the gross" wanting to confirm if the movie was a shoo-in for the next winner. |
| 3 | * CreatorBacklash: Cosby might have been co-producer and co-writer, but ended up begging audiences not to see it shortly before its release. When the film won a UsefulNotes/GoldenRaspberryAward, Cosby asked the studio make his statuette out of gold and marble so he could accept it in style. |
| 4 | * CreatorKiller: |
| 5 | ** It's one of the handful of movies that led to distributor Creator/ColumbiaPictures winding up in Creator/{{Sony}}'s hands by 1991, though the damage this film did was more reputation-oriented. |
| 6 | ** It also blasted apart the career of director Paul Weiland, who had been labeled as "Inexperienced". He didn't direct another theatrical film for seven years (''Film/CitySlickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold'') and didn't have a very visible role in Hollywood since. |
| 7 | * DirectToVideo: In the UK and other territories. [[SarcasmMode What a surprise]]. |
| 8 | * StarDerailingRole: For Cosby's film career. Any cache he still had as the star of ''Series/TheCosbyShow'' was wiped out when his next film, ''Film/GhostDad'', became another critically drubbed flop. |
| 9 | * ThrowItIn: Apparently, the shot of the rainbow trout swimming past an issue of ''Playboy'' magazine and doing a double-take was completely unintentional -- that was the trout's actual reaction. Many viewers consider this to be the only funny joke in the entire movie. |
| 10 | * WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/MichaelPalin was asked to play Frayn. |
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