Screwballs is a 1983 Canadian teen sex comedy film[5] that was inspired by the success of Porky's.

Following the success of Porky's, Roger Corman told Linda Shayne, who had worked for him, that he was interested in a low budget teen sex comedy.

Shayne wrote one with Jim Wynorski, who did Corman's advertising and had written scripts for him.

Corman liked the script, originally entitled Hide the Salami, and agreed to provide $500,000 of the budget.

Variety magazine called the film "a poor man's Porky's... full of youthful exuberance and proves utterly painless to watch, but it is so close in premise and tone to its model that negative comparisons can't help but be drawn".