Kadeem Hardison was the original choice to play Seymour Stewart. Damon Wayans revealed on The Arsenio Hall Show (1989) that his mother told him to cast his younger brother Marlon Wayans.
The same approval code '123456' is used for all of the credit card transactions.
First film involving an early version of identity theft.
Title was taken from a phrase used in a sketch entitled "The Homeboy Shopping Network" on In Living Color (1990), which also starred Damon Wayans.