The comedy film is supposed to be about The Three Stooges. The man who played the arcade owner was Paul 'Mousie' Garner who was one of Ted Healy's Stooges.
The comedy film was made to cash in on The Three Stooges' resurgence in popularity during the 1980s, thanks to syndication and the hit novelty song "The Curly Shuffle" by the country pop group Jump 'n the Saddle Band.
The main character's name Howard F. Howard is a reference to the Stooges' original billing: Howard, Fine and Howard.
In an inside joke, the sanitarium's interns are named Gower and Gulch. Gower Gulch was the nickname given to the buildings that housed Columbia Pictures' short subject department during the 1930s and 1940s.
The comedy film utilizes footage from the four public domain shorts from Columbia Pictures, much of them colorized.