When shooting on location at the Long Beach Pier, Director Rico Johnson called his buddy, the Fire Chief of Long Beach to come and pull a prank on David Kano and tell him that he was shutting down the shoot. No one on set knew what was going on, and after about 5 minutes when they said it was a joke, the set of 30 people were all taken aback and laughed as David Kano went running down the pier after he had gotten, "Punk'd."
How the character 'Meatloaf' got her name of 'Meatloaf' was based on a true story.
Joe Grande lost over 100 pounds for role of PO Pug. He weighed 330 pounds in pre-production, but within 7 months, when principal photography started, his weight had dropped to 220 pounds with the aid of a lap band operation.