As cited above, MC Hammer is an ordained minister, meaning he was essentially playing himself twice in his appearance. In fact, his character Reverend Pressure has the same name as the character he played in the movie Please Hammer Don't Hurt Him: The Movie, and probably is the same person.
Keep Circulating the Tapes: No plans to be released on DVD, though reruns can be seen daily on Encore Black. Also terrestrial channel Get TV has begun airing the series as of January 2, 2019.
Those Two Actors: LaWanda Page and Whitman Mayo of Sanford and Son turn up for several episodes in the final season as a bickering married couple.
Lynne Moody appeared in the first season as a love interest of Reuben's, after playing a pre-The Jeffersons Jenny Willis on All in the Family, and later appearing on the former — where she costarred with Sherman Helmsley, and playing Clifton Davis' (Reuben Gregory) sister Tracy on the 1974-1975 sitcom That's My Mama, which also starred Jester Hairston (Rolly) as Wildcat.
You Look Familiar: John Hancock appears in the pilot episode as the church's minister, who quits after a clash with Ernie. He reappears in the final season episode "My Fair Homeboy" as a business partner of Ernie's.
Fake Nationality: For a film set partly in the Vatican, there are remarkably few Italians among the cast. Count Fontana and Pope Pius XII are played by Romanian actors, and Father Riccardo Fontana is portrayed by Mathieu Kassovitz, a French actor of Hungarian-Jewish descent.
