In the final scene of the movie Quinn answers a question about the meaning of Manifest Destiny. This is the same question answered by her sister Daria in the first episode of the TV series Daria (1997).
Carson Daly, an MTV mainstay, has a role in this movie as David, Quinn's tutor.
MTV strongly considered releasing "Is It Fall Yet?" in movie theatres during the spring of 2000, via the MTV Films partnership with Paramount Pictures. However, Paramount's research showed that most moviegoers knew nothing about "Daria" to give the film release a chance to succeed, so MTV ended up airing the film on their network in August 2000.