The giant Buzzy Bee featured in the prologue is one of the main floats from the annual Christmas Farmers' Santa Parade in Auckland, New Zealand.
Writer/director Martin Renner was influenced to become a filmmaker by the Kiwi classic "Goodbye Pork Pie." A sequence in the dance montage mirrors a similar scene in Pork Pie.
This is the first film in which Donna Wilkes, who is bilingual, speaks fluent Spanish.
The first movie to feature the international running group, The Hash House Harriers ("a drinking club with a running problem").
Director Martin Renner considers Alexis Arquette to be the only non-New Zealander actor who could speak in a "Kiwi" accent (in the film "Jack Be Nimble"). Alexis had agreed to star in the prologue to Buzz Cut but had to withdraw due to terminal illness.