The film was mentioned in passing in an episode of Married... with Children (1987) during an in-flight to London, as a joke to the film's failure. Ed O'Neill was the star of the series.
There were plans to do a sequel, which never materialized.
The film was shown in Dial 'B' for Virgin (1994) where main characters, Ed O'Neill and Katey Sagal were in a video store and looked briefly at a rack that showed a poster of the film with a sign over O'Neill's face that said "Free Video".
Prior to filming, director Peter Faiman, writer and co-producer John Hughes, and producer Richard Vane took a road trip throughout Georgia, the Carolinas (North and South), Mississippi, and Tennessee to scout the route of the film's characters, Dutch Dooley and Doyle would take to drive back home to Chicago for Thanksgiving. Faiman liked most of the places that he'd seen during the trip, and they ended up in final film.