The title comes from the common exclamation: With friends like that who needs enemies?
Sister Sixto (Shelley Morrison) is in the run downed convent library looking for 'Black Beauty', an 1877 novel by English author Anna Sewell. With 50 million copies sold, it's one of the best-selling books of all time, teaching animal welfare as well as how to treat people with kindness, sympathy, and respect.
Accident-prone Brother Paul Bernardi is one of Rich Little's few appearances as a character actor rather than an impressionist. He appeared again as the same character in The Breakaway Monk (1969).