The Blues Brothers/Trivia
- All-Star Cast: Bit parts for the likes of Ray Charles, John Candy, Aretha Franklin, Carrie Fisher, James Brown, Cab Calloway, and Henry Gibson, plus cameos by Steven Spielberg, Frank Oz, and Twiggy. Paul Reubens also appears, pre-"Pee-Wee Herman" fame, Joe Walsh has a small cameo as a prisoner at the end of the film, and one of the dancers outside Ray's Music Emporium was James Avery, who would later play Uncle Phil in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, in his first screen appearance.
- Genius Bonus: The Triple Rock Baptist Church has Hungarian roots. You can tell by the crooked cross on top of the steeple.
- Trope Namer: These movies named the following tropes:
- Word of God: The novel, which is based on the original screenplay (which bares only a slight resemblance to the final version), expands on some points, such as what Elwood was doing between Jake getting locked up and the beginning of the film (he worked in a aerosol can factory as a maintenance guy, which is how he got that glue can. In a deleted scene, in fact, he is shown working at the factory on the assembly line, before going to his boss's office to tell him that he's quitting to become a preacher).
- The mall chase scene took place at Dixie Square Mall, a shopping mall in the Chicago suburb of Harvey that had already gone out of business in 1979 due to excessively high crime. The filmmakers set up fake storefronts within half of the mall (for instance, the Toys "R" Us seen in the film was actually a Walgreens). After filming finished, the building was left abandoned for thirty years before finally being demolished in 2012.