Parody
Ed O’Neill and David Faustino both felt that their lives were parodied on the show quite often. O’Neill really did play college football while Faustino went on to become a rapper, which explains his character Grandmaster B.
Moolah
Ed O’Neill thinks that the real reason the series was cancelled was because of money. O’Neill thinks that local stations, who played reruns, begged Sony, the series producer, to not make any more episodes as the rights were just too expensive. Apparently stations played a million dollars to Sony for every episode.