Chris Farley uses the same football play with the kids at the youth center -- "32 belly option" -- as he did when he and 'Rob Lowe (I)' went cow-tipping in Tommy Boy (1995).
The same car Chris Farley and David Spade drive in Tommy Boy (1995) can be seen parked in front of the Rec Center Farley's character works at.
At the Governor's Press conference, the television stations attending are real Seattle TV stations: KING-TV, KCPQ-TV, and KOMO-TV. KOMO even went as far a actually being on location and loaning equipment for the shoot. They have done this before and since: Harry and the Hendersons (1987) and Life or Something Like It (2002)
The band playing at the concert is Mudhoney.
Film critic Gene Siskel said that this was the first film he walked out on in 26 years of reviewing movies.
The airplane Chris gets his jacket stuck in is a Cessna 340.