Jean-Claude Van Damme coached actress Phylicia Rashad on how to hold a gun on set during one of their action sequences.
Executive producer and writer Dave Callaham makes a cameo in the season finale.
Dave Callaham calls his treatment for the first season of Jean-Claude Van Johnson, "truly the craziest thing I've ever written."
Each episode of Jean-Claude Van Johnson is structured like a half-hour action film with a major action set piece as its climax.
The name of the wine is "Riker's Beard" which is a reference to Commander William T. Riker (played by Jonathan Frakes) on Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987). Riker is known as becoming more interesting and important to the program starting in the second season when he grew a beard and kept it for the remainder of the series.