According to George Armitage, he "basically shot three movies simultaneously": one that stuck to the script, one that was "mildly understated," and one that went "completely over-the-top" in terms of improvisation and energy. It was usually the third version that got used. This means there could be alternate takes of nearly every scene still out there somewhere, depending on whether the studio retained the footage and what happened to it in the intervening years. (So far, the film's DVD and Blu-ray releases haven't had any of them.)