"Mona Dearly" (the character played by Bette Midler) is an anagram for "Only a dream." The first thing to appear on screen is a little blurb about the Yugo car company using the town of Verplanck as a test area for their new model years ago. Every vehicle in town that is not a truck is a Yugo, except the police cruisers which are early Plymouth horizon k-cars. Every character's automobile has personalized plates.