Bert's real life wife LeeAnn Kreischer can be seen near the start of the film, as the mom at the Sweet 16 party who Bert does not get along with.
Bert Kreischer and Mark Hamill got along very well during filming. Hamill would often make Kreischer laugh out loud by saying iconic lines of his character Luke Skywalker laden with profanity.
In this movie, Bert has a jab at his best friend Tom Segura more than once. An example of this is the words "Tom is fat" spray-painted on his wall.
In 1997, during Kreischer's sixth year at FSU, the university was ranked number one by The Princeton Review in their annual list of the top "party schools" in the United States. Later that same year Kreischer became the focus of a six-page article in Rolling Stone who named him "the top partyer at the Number One Party School in the country." Titled "Bert Kreischer: The Undergraduate," the article recounted Kreischer's party hijinks, which included bouts of heavy drinking and public nudity. From the Rolling Stone article director Oliver Stone optioned the film rights to Kreischer's life. When the development deal with Oliver Stone fell through, all the scripts that were submitted went back to their writers. One of these writers changed Kreischer's name and sold the script to National Lampoon. This became the basis for the 2002 film National Lampoon's Van Wilder, starring Ryan Reynolds.
Actors Jovan Savic who plays Irina's father and Viktor Savic who plays a young version of the character which Bert robs are father and son in real life.