Producer Aurelio De Laurentiis decided to add the sentence "I giovani di successo" ("The Successful Youth") after "Yuppies" because he wasn't sure that the term was well-known enough in Italy at the time the film was released.
Actor Jerry Calà stated that many gags were continuously improvised.
The movie was initially planned as a drama inspired by The Big Chill (1983).
Massimo Boldi, Ezio Greggio, Isaac George, and Sergio Vastano were working together in the successful TV show Drive In on private channel Italia 1 at the time of filming.
Second movie collaboration between Massimo Boldi and Christian De Sica, the first one being I pompieri (1985) in which they hadn't any common scene. The two actors became then a comedy duo which is still active as of 2021.