In this parody, the Kurtz character becomes "Fred Mertz" aka "Mad Man Mertz". This is a takeoff on both "Fred Mertz" (from I Love Lucy (1951)) and especially the infamous TV pitchman Mad Man Muntz.
As the film this lampoons had two endings, this film has three.
Released on a videocassette titled "Hardware Wars (1978) and Other Film Farces," which also included Bambi Meets Godzilla (1969) and Closet Cases of the Nerd Kind (1980).