 Martha Coolidge was fired from the movie for cutting many scenes of gratuitous nudity but declined an opportunity to have her directing credit appear as Alan Smithee.National Lampoon producer Matty Simmons claims to have paid $250,000 to remove the National Lampoon name from the project, saying, "It may have nothing to do with the quality of the picture.We simply don’t like to take credit or responsibility for a picture that we have nothing to do with.”

The film was given a theatrical release in the United States by Paramount Pictures in August 1984.