Moore as Cassandra Eldridge Curtis Armstrong as Ack Ack Raymond Bobcat Goldthwait as Egg Stork Joel Murray as George Calamari William Hickey as Old Man Beckerstead Joe Flaherty as General Raymond Mark Metcalf as Aguilla Beckerstead John Matuszak as Stain Kimberly Foster as Cookie Campbell Matt Mulhern as Teddy Beckerstead Rich Little as Radio contest DJ Tom Villard as Clay Stork Jeremy Piven as Ty Rich Hall as Wilbur, Gas station attendant Taylor Negron as Taylor, Gas station attendant Billie Bird as Grandma Calamari Bruce Wagner as Uncle Frank Production Several locations on Cape Cod, Massachusetts were used for the film: Saint Pope John Paul II High School (as Generic High School), Hyannis West Elementary School (as Generic Elementary), the Woods Hole, Martha's Vineyard And Nantucket Steamship Authority ferry dock in Woods Hole, where the characters board the ferry, and the motorcycle gang leader jumps his motorcycle into the water. The gas station bathroom scene was shot on a stage built in the MBL Club in Woods Hole. The inside of General Raymond's Army-Navy store is Mass Bay Company, located at 595 Main Street, Hyannis, Massachusetts. The Stork brothers' gas station is the (then-Amoco) located at 1098 Main Street in Dennis, Massachusetts. Hoops McCann is named after the protagonist in Steely Dan's song "Glamour Profession" from the Gaucho album, who is introduced as a basketball aficionado. The animation in the film was directed by Bill Kopp who previously worked with Savage Steve Holland on Better Off Dead and would later work with him on Eek! The Cat. Two animators who worked on the film, David Silverman and Wes Archer, would later be directors on The Simpsons and would animate Simpsons shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show with Kopp. Savage Steve Holland was reportedly upset with Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert's criticism of his earlier film Better Off Dead, which led to the gag with the two bunnies that get blown up at the end of the movie who resemble the movie critics. Reception Nina Darnton of The New York Times wrote, "In spite of the director's flair for zany humor, this film is just absurd." Pat Graham of the Chicago Reader found it "Not a bad film, and certainly more polished than Holland's Better Off Dead'' debut, though it's marred by unevenness and the director's ineradicable penchant for infantile clowning." The film maintains a 45% score at Rotten Tomatoes, based