The movie was originally called "The Handjob." The title was changed when the production had a hard time securing shooting locations; people thought it was a porn movie.
On an episode of Off Camera with Sam Jones (2014), Aubrey Plaza revealed that she was seated close to her parents during the premiere and that her on-screen masturbation scene caused her much anxiety due to this proximity situation. She later stated that her dad enjoyed the movie a lot. "My mom was shocked," she told Vanity Fair. "But I think she'll be O.K. My dad was actually really psyched about it. He's not like my dad in the movie - he's actually really excited and not weirded out [by the sex scenes] at all. Which I think is weird."
All the teenagers in the film are played by adults for comedic purposes. Most of them are over the age of 25.
The setting for the movie was based on writer and director Maggie Carey's high school in Boise, Idaho. Carey graduated from Borah High in 1993, and sculpted many locations in the film to the surrounding area, including Big Bun and Borah Pool.
Most of the pool scenes were filmed at Pinecrest Woodland Hills, a private elementary and middle school in Southern California that shut down in 2016.