David Spade said the "fat guy in a little coat" routine began as an in-joke between him and Chris Farley when the two shared an office together working at Saturday Night Live (1975). Farley would often break up the monotony of their writing time by repeatedly pranking Spade with the idea. He would always insist that he had new material to show Spade, then turn around and reveal it to once again be the "fat guy in a little coat" joke. Spade said he and Farley decided to use it for this movie, thinking that if it was funny to them, it may be funny to others as well.