Winona Ryder broke her arm while shooting the scene in which she and Adam Sandler ride bikes down the stairs.
During the dinner scene, Adam Sandler's character Deeds remarks that Walter Williamson's opera singer character Kurt looks like Mr. French. Kurt replies that he doesn't know who Mr. French is and has never heard of him. Mr. French, or Giles French, is the character portrayed by Sebastian Cabot from the television series Family Affair (1966). Cabot and Williamson were no relation.
When Babe, pretending to be a school nurse, talks to Longfellow on the phone, she says that a boy named Billy Barty is in her office, sick. This is a tribute to actor Billy Barty, who died in 2000, three months before production started.
Rob Schneider: As Nazo, the Italian delivery man. Schneider had originally played this role in Big Daddy (1999).
Al Sharpton: As himself, also known as "The Rhyme Master". The filmmakers knew they wanted someone dynamic to make an appearance, and they ultimately decided on the Reverend.