The premise of the show was based on an actual event. Jerry Seinfeld, Michael E. Perry and Larry David were having lunch at an Yuma Arizona sushi restaurant. Perry told Seinfeld that he'd rather a chicken truck run him over than eat Yuma sushi. Larry David, walking a few feet ahead of Seinfeld and Perry, thought Perry said, "the Kamikaze pilot must have been chicken and missed the USS Arizona and hit the Yuma sushi boat."