Accidental Aesop: Before you quit your job, make sure there's some way to support yourself afterwards. If Jane had waited to see if Dick's new position as vice president of communications would actually work out, she would have still had her job as a travel agent and they wouldn't have had to struggle as much to make ends meet.
Harsher in Hindsight: The film was strongly satirizing the economic strife under then-President George W. Bush. But, it becomes more uncomfortable after 2008, when Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy and plunged the economy into recession, causing high unemployment and putting more people into the same sort of financial troubles Dick and Jane go through, and even more so after the recession sparked by the COVID-19 Pandemic in 2020.
A Two Scenes, One Dialogue segment of Dick going shopping and Jane in an exercise class is accompanied with Darude's "Sandstorm", a full decade before it underwent Memetic Mutation.
"Stick to the plan! Stick to the plan!" Once again an outside party barges in and bungles an operation, though ironically it's the latter screaming the aforementioned line this time. And oddly enough both the infamous WoW video and the remake of this film came out within months of one another.
