To earn the money he needed to buy a guitar previously owned by his idol, Jimi Hendrix, that he saw in a store window, he took a job as a bicycle messenger for Ed Foley Couriers.

[1][2][3] Leo, a former juvenile delinquent, is a naive, self-centered, morose, and cynical Generation Xer, while Marlon is a young husband and father who tries to balance his family life with his bicycle messenger job and has a knack for conning people.

[2][5][6][7] After seven seasons portraying house painter Eldin Bernecky on Murphy Brown from 1988 to 1994, Robert Pastorelli left the series to star in his own show, Double Rush.

[7] Everett described Lembeck as a canny director and the writing of the first episode as skillful in its development of characters without overcrowding the plot, but doubted Double Rush′s ability to succeed in the same time slot as ABC′s Roseanne.

[7] On January 4, 1995, Scott D. Pierce wrote in the Deseret News that Double Rush was an obvious attempt to reach a Generation X audience that came across as a pale imitation of Taxi and was "lifeless," "strangely flat and unfunny.

[5] She found Double Rush an odd way to give him his own show because, unlike Eldin, the Johnny Verona character had "about as much zest as dishwater"[5] and did not allow Pastorelli to display his talents.