Other notable appearances in the film include Randy Quaid as an annoying neighbor, Dana Carvey as a man with multiple personalities hired to drive Pryor's car, Rodney Dangerfield as an embezzling loan officer, musician Morris Day, and WWF wrestler King Kong Bundy as a monstrous mover.

One day, he goes to work and meets a new female co-worker, and when both of them attempt to enter their keys in the same office doorknob, Arlo guesses what has happened and confronts his boss, Roy Hendersen.

Shortly afterward, Monica retrieves her purse and withdraws a large sum of cash, ordering their twin sons Randy and Marshall to leave the room, implying that her own use of profanity will cost her dearly.

The Pears arrive in Boise to find their new house stripped of not only its cabinetry and appliances, but its doors, stairs and swimming pool, revealing that the sellers were indeed serious when they said that they were "taking everything with us".

To top it off, his new neighbor is revealed to be the twin brother of Frank Crawford, the shell-shocked Vietnam War veteran who lived next door to the family in New Jersey.

When Cornell Crawford gets ready to mow his lawn, he is interrupted by Pear, who tells him to put his contraption back in the garage and invest in a "human-sized mower".

[2] A negative review came from the Los Angeles Times, which stated that the film "is pretty flat as a comedy, but is of interest as a case study in sociology, as the Pears could just as easily be white as black.

There's a certain irony that a comedy of errors, even a disappointing one, is set against the perfection of an idealized backdrop of a fully and harmoniously racially integrated society.

[3] Janet Maslin of The New York Times provided a positive notice, and stated that "Pryor presides over Moving with Cosbyesque geniality", and that he "does a lot to make [the film] funny".