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  • California Doubling: The movie wasn't shot in America at all. It was filmed in Cape Town, South Africa.
  • Completely Different Title: It's known as "Mom, I'm alone against the world" in France.
  • Creator Killer: The scathing reception made this the final film director Rod Daniel did before his death in 2016.
  • Disowned Adaptation: Daniel Stern called it "An insult, total garbage."
  • The Other Darrin: All of the returning characters are played by different actors. Daniel Stern, in particular, refused to go near the script, so Marv is played by French Stewart, and he's also dressed like Harry, for some reason.
  • Sequel Gap: Came out five years after 3, and ten years after 2, which it's (supposedly) following up.
  • What Could Have Been:
    • If the film was successful, we would've had a TV series about it on ABC Family. Within the film, Kevin's parents didn't get back together in an earlier script. The ending was rewritten in case they ended up making the show.
    • The earlier script also had Kevin's mother dating a new partner, a police officer who it turned out at the end was Marv's younger brother, and the polar opposite of Marv himself, being the White Sheep of the family. The final script changed this to Natalie's housemaid turning out to be Marv's mother, and her being, if anything, even worse than Marv himself.
    • Daniel Stern was asked to reprise his role as Marv in this film, but he refused.

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