One of the bad guys says, "We're from the government, and we're here to help", which Ronald Reagan said were words you would never want to hear.
Unlike the first movie, Dennis's clothes looked more accurate to the comic strip and 80s cartoon.
Betty White's Golden Girls' costar, Bea Arthur was considered for the part of Mrs. Wilson in Dennis the Menace (1993).
Like Walter Matthau, who played George Wilson in the original film Denis la malice (1993), Don Rickles was Jewish.