[6] The company created a shortlist of 200 alternate titles liking none of them and decided to turn the situation into a contest wherein test screenings for the film now under the title of Name This Movie would be shown in Fort Lauderdale, Florida with audience members able to participate in a contest wherein they would suggest names for the film.

[6] Over 1,000 entries were received in the contest with the winning title, Making the Grade, suggested by then eighteen-year-old University of Central Florida student David Thollander.

[6] At the start of the film's final credits, the characters Palmer and Eddie are touted as returning in the upcoming movie, Tourista.

[7] However, after low theatrical interest in the duo and repeated missed deadlines (of which Olsen tried to contribute as a writer), the script for Tourista was never completed.

In his review for The New York Times, Vincent Canby wrote "The humor, some of it looking and sounding as if it had been lifted from The Official Preppy Handbook, is wan, and the direction, by Dorian Walker, without character of any sort.