| 1 | * CompletelyDifferentTitle: "Por fin me la quité de encima" (I finally got rid of her) in Latin America and "¡Por favor, maten a mi mujer!" ("Please, Kill My Wife!") in Spain. |
| 2 | * LifeImitatesArt: In the film, which premiered on June 12, 1986, when police surround Ken, Sam gloats, ''"they're from the government, they're here to help you!"'' Two months '''to the day''' later, on August 12, 1986, UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan gave a press conference and delivered his now-famous quip, ''"I've always felt the nine most terrifying words in the English language are: 'I'm from the government, and I'm here to help.'"'' |
| 3 | * {{Parody}}: Music/WeirdAlYankovic did a parody of the title song called "Toothless People", expecting the film to be a smash hit. It was, but the title song itself wasn't. |
| 4 | * PlayingAgainstType: The only film directed by the entire Creator/ZuckerAbrahamsAndZucker trio to be a more traditional, story-driven comedy rather than their [[RapidFireComedy hundred-joke-a-minute]] {{screwball comed|y}}ies they were known for. It was also the last hurrah for the three-man directing team itself, as all their future cooperations would only have one of them directing. |
| 5 | * TypeCasting: You couldn't get two more vanilla actors in Creator/JudgeReinhold and Creator/HelenSlater to play the milquetoast kidnappers. |
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