* BoxOfficeBomb: Budget, $15 million. Box office, $6,029,824.
* CreatorBacklash: Creator/BlakeEdwards claimed to not remember much about the process of making the movie and told people not to see it.
* ExecutiveMeddling: The film was conceived with an entirely different premise, but problems with the studio are among the reasons why it eventually turned into the scripted chase comedy that was released.
* FakeNationality: Cuban-Venezuelan Creator/MariaConchitaAlonso playing Italian Claudia Pazzo.
* RealLifeRelative: Ellen is played by director Creator/BlakeEdwards' daughter.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The film was originally intended as a heavily improvised homage to Creator/LaurelAndHardy's 1932 short ''Film/TheMusicBox'' (the title being taken from Hardy's catchphrase, "That's another fine mess you've gotten us into!", and the piano delivery plot are all that is left from it) with Creator/RichardPryor and Creator/BurtReynolds as the leads, in the spirit of Edwards' ''Film/TheParty''. Problems with the studio are among the reasons why it eventually turned into the scripted chase comedy that was released.