The original actor to play the lead of Captain ReTard quit the project after principal photography was finished. The new Captain ReTard's parts were shot almost two years later. There was never a time when the cast was actually all together.
The set was built in an abandoned school, just south of Nashville, Tennessee.
The cast never received a full script. Only the parts they needed to read were distributed to save printing costs.
The part of Slim T. Jerk Sr. (played by John Silvestro) was written just for him.
The 35-minute film took over three years to finish.