Bernie Mac based his interpretation of the character Dollar Bill on a close family friend who was obsessed with the color green.
Ice Cube, Bernie Mac, AJ Johnson, Tiny Lister, Faizon Love , Michael Clarke Duncan and Ronn Riser all also appeared in Friday (1995) together.
At one point, there was a scene when Lil Man asked Officer Freeman played by John Amos, "Did you know you look just like the father from Good Times?" Amos did, in fact, play the father in the 1970s sitcom Good Times (1974).
Features a future Oscar winner (Jamie Foxx) and two future Oscar nominees (Terrence Howard and Michael Clarke Duncan) in its cast.
Monica Calhoun (Ebony) and Terrence Howard (K.C.) have previously appeared in The Jacksons: An American Dream (1992) as Rebbie and Jackie Jackson, the two oldest siblings of Michael Jackson. A year later they also starred together in The Best Man and then later it's 2013 sequel The Best Man Holiday.