After the Hsu Pu-liao era came to an end, Chu picked up the TV host Hu Kua and singing starlet Lan Hsin-mei, neither of whom were particularly hot at the time, to shoot The Naughty Family. The film flopped, and all Chu's eight other contracts were automatically cancelled. In no time he plummeted from the zenith to the nadir.
「許不了時代」結束，朱延平轉而發掘當時還不太紅的電視主持人胡瓜和女歌星藍心湄拍《頑皮家族》，不料票房失敗，手上的八部片約全部自動解約，一下由最紅跌到谷底。