When Ere Kokkonen started to write the script for the movie. He dig up all his old script of the movie Uuno Turhapuro armeijan leivissä (1984) that he wrote and directed several years earlier. He then used parts of the plot that were left out from that movie's final script in this movie.
After seeing a preview of this movie Spede Pasanen and Ere Kokkonen settled their differences and started to make movies together after several years. The next movie they made together was Uuno Turhapuro herra Helsingin herra (1991).
When broadcast on Finnish TV between 12 November 1993 and 17 December 1993 as a six-part extended version of the theatrical release, it had an estimated one million viewers for each episode.