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• The final note in the credits - "To Johnny LaRue - thanks to you, we got our crane shot" - is a reference to one of the recurring characters played on "SCTV Channel" (1983) by John Candy.
  
  
• Director Cameo: [Michael Moore] as gun-toting anti-Canadian.
  
  
• A deleted scene featured James Belushi and Mary Charlotte Wilcox as Canadian border guards wearing beaver hats (in addition to Belushi's role as the rehabilitated news reporter). They improvised the entire scene. Afterwards, Belushi (a relative newcomer to the comedy scene) told comedy veteran Wilcox (whom he didn't recognize) that "you're kind of funny" and that she should try to get into the comedy business.
  
  

• The Name of the Prime Minister comes from two Canadian PMs.
  
  
• CAMEO 'Maurice Mad Dog Vachon': the thug who arm wrestles with Rhea Perlman in a bar (Vachon was a hugely popular professional wrestler for over 40 years)
  
  

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