Roger Corman says they got the idea for the title after being sent a letter of complaint about the first film from the Private Duty Nurses Association.

Nurse Spring takes care of grumpy Vietnam veteran Domino who has a plate in his head and is in need of surgery from Dr. McClintock.

Armitage: Peter Bogdanovich and Francis [Ford Coppola] had left working with Roger, so there was an opening there for directors, I asked him if I could direct, and he said sure.

I shot the whole movie in the South Bay, Manhattan Beach—it's exactly the same place and time period that Paul Thomas Anderson used in Inherent Vice.

[3]Writing for Turner Classic Movies, critic Nathaniel Thompson described the film as "basically a less humorous rehash of The Student Nurses, with another curvy threesome navigating a sea of obstacles," that "little of [the plot] has a connection to the actual hospital," and "the lack of narrative direction ultimately grounds the entire enterprise.

"[5] In a review of the film in Slant, critic Budd Wilkins wrote that supporting actor Paul Hampton "takes this one by a country mile, his psychedelic slickster easily the funniest thing in the film other than Sky, house band at the watering hole Dewey patronizes, who get to perform their classic ode to oral fixation 'How’s That Treatin’ Your Mouth, Babe?