Legacy
This film has been seen as a light satire of American politics in the post-Watergate era, with politicians being depicted as tied to crime, and not being what they appear to be.
A television movie sequel, The Return of the Shaggy Dog followed in 1987; and after that the original 1959 film was remade twice: as a television movie in 1994 and as a theatrical feature in 2006.
The film has recently been satirised on the Howard Stern Show by Artie Lange.
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“What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.”
—Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536)