Chris Farley uses the same football play with the kids at the youth center - "32 belly option" - as he did when he and Rob Lowe went cow-tipping in Tommy Boy - Durch dick und dünn (1995).
Fred Wolf, who did punch-up work on Tommy Boy - Durch dick und dünn (1995), claimed the studio told him to "deliver a finished script by midnight on Sunday, the last day Chris was contractually allowed to get out of the movie. If I didn't have a finished script, any finished script, they were going to sue me." Wolf wrote 45 pages in a weekend, and dropped the script off at Paramount 15 minutes before his deadline.
The security guards behind Mike at the 'Rock the Vote' scene are Chris Farley's real-life brothers, Kevin P. Farley and John Farley.
Chris Farley, along with his brother Tom, attended a preview screening of "Black Sheep" in New Jersey. Chris hated the film, he was so upset about the way the film turned out, that on the very same night he lost a year and a half worth of his sobriety. He got drunk and trashed his hotel room, causing $3,000 worth of damage. That would lead into what was his fifth stint in rehab.
The cabin used on the outskirts of town is the same cabin used as Jill's cabin in Joe Dirt, another movie starring David Spade.