Jared Rutter writes:
Wicked had already done takeoffs on science fiction (Space Nuts) and horror (Camp Cuddly Pines Power Tool Massacre), the latter co-written by Daniels. So she chose to goof on a genre they hadn’t touched‚Äîthe spy movie. “Originally,” she said, “I wrote this for myself to star in and for someone else to direct.” But she was told that the big script, with its many characters and scene changes, was “impossible to shoot.”