- Box Office Bomb: Budget, $7.1-$7.2 million. Box office, $16 million. Disney was forced to write off $4 million when this take-off on the Faust legend failed to perform at the box office.
- Hostility on the Set: In a interview, Reggie Nalder, who played the Chairman of the Devil's Council, said that he could not stand working with Bill Cosby, describing him as a "pig" as well as "rude, arrogant, and very untalented".
- Playing Against Type: Bill Cosby as the Devil.
- Star-Derailing Role: This was part of a string of box-office duds for Bill Cosby and Elliott Gould; though he would rebound on TV with The Cosby Show, the former would wind up destroying his movie career spectacularly within a decade of this film's release thanks to Leonard Part 6 and Ghost Dad.
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