The film came about after the producers had spent two weeks in Florida working for the disastrous John Kerry campaign and came home to read a newspaper article about 14 soldiers being killed in Iraq, under which was an article about the annual pass-holders in Disneyland that same weekend staging a picket-signed march down Main Street and a sit-in at Disneyland's City Hall to protest the tightening of the center control wheel on tea cup ride which slightly reduced the tea cups' spinning speed.
The producer (Bolton) and the director (Osborne) were both at one time employed as costumed characters that walk around the Disneyland park.