Pierce kept crouching down like Groucho Marx when he had scenes with Geena Davis so as to make her appear much taller than he was. In reality he is taller than Geena.
In the final scene Stephanie stepped on a little box for the final freeze frame of her and Pierce so that they could get the picture just right since she was so much shorter than Pierce. She stated that she had to step on the box in several other episodes also.
The scene in the gym originally called for a big food fight but the network said it was too silly so a rehearsing marching band was used instead. The week following the airing the series Moonlighting (1985) had a pie fight and this made Stephanie and Robin feel very vindicated for their "silliness".
The film "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" (1963) was Stephanie's inspiration for this script.