Trivia: The model tree falling over after Beetlejuice kicks it was never supposed to happen. This caused Michael Keaton to ad-lib the "nice fucking model" line. Tim Burton enjoyed it so much he kept it in the film.
Trivia: The man who is getting a (fake) haircut as Akeem first enters the barber shop is played by a then-unknown Cuba Gooding Jr.
Trivia: At one point, Heather Chandler asks Heather Duke, "Did you have a brain tumor for breakfast?" Ironically and tragically in real life, actress Kim Walker (Heather Chandler) died of a brain tumor in 2001.
Trivia: When the taxi Jessica and Eddie are in hits the lamppost, she spins around and her dress shifts position. For a couple of frames on the laserdisc version her underwear vanishes, or at least it appears to. Opinion is divided as to whether it's a deliberate move by the animators or just an error in colouring. (https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/who-stripped-jessica-rabbit/). (00:18:15)
Trivia: David Graf's wife Kathryn has a cameo in this movie as an airline stewardess.
Trivia: When the film was shown during the 2003 Baseball Hall of Fame ceremony, Susan Sarandon and her partner Tim Robbins were not invited because of the controversy surrounding their anti-war views on Iraq.
Trivia: When Frank throws water on a waiter he thought was on fire, he apologizes and claims he thought the waiter was Richard Pryor. This is a reference to the time Richard Pryor, while doing cocaine, set himself on fire and ran down a busy street in L.A.
Trivia: The scenes from the amusment park in the movie were filmed at Playland, in Rye, NY.
Trivia: Catherine tosses a huge black gorilla to Tess as she gets off the helicopter. This was an inside joke reference to "Gorillas in the Mist" which Sigourney Weaver had just finished filming and was released only three months before this movie.
Trivia: The Jamaica Bar scenes were filmed at the "Dragon Bay" in San Ontonio, Jamacia.
Trivia: Pat Roach - General Kael - intended to do the stunts by himself, but there was one thing that prevented this: "Insurance - they wouldn't let me." So horsemaster Greg Powell did the stunts for him.
Trivia: The scene where Jake and Christy are arguing and she yells the line "I'd go BAREFOOT." was used in a scene in the movie "Planes, Trains and Automobiles" about a year before. Moreover, Kevin Bacon, who starred in SHAB, has a cameo in the beginning of Plains/Trains.
Trivia: John Cleese's character name, Archie Leach, was Cary Grant's real name (Archibald Leach). John named his character himself as a tribute because they were born in towns near to each other.
Trivia: When Corey Feldman is banging the dent out of the hood of the Cadillac, he says not to worry about waking his parents as they are vampires. Feldman's movie before this one was Lost Boys where he was a vampire killer.
Trivia: All of Dennis Farina's scenes were shot in Las Vegas; he was there filming his TV series Crime Story at the same time.
Trivia: When Roman is proposing his investment deal to Chet there's "instant wood fire starter" on the mantle behind Chet. The scene before this, where they had the blowout, Chet was trying and failing to make a fire using wrinkled up newspaper.
Trivia: When Schwarzenegger and Belushi are in the diner after shooting the transvestite, Belushi is going through the paperwork that needs to be done. The one sheet which is shown Belushi says is an "accident report". Actually typed at the top of the paper is "Worthless Document Case Report". (01:09:40)
Trivia: Director Tom Holland was asked to direct this movie following his success with the first movie. Actors Chris Sarandon, Amanda Bearse and Stephen Geoffrey's were all offered to reprise their character's roles. All four had turned them down. Tom and Chris were both working together on the movie Child's Play. Amanda didn't like the material and was busy appearing in the TV show Married...With Children. Stephen was offered the choice to be in this movie or 976-Evil. Stephen, like Amanda, didn't like the material and hated the script and chose the latter movie. Only William Ragsdale and Roddy McDowall appeared in this movie as their original characters.