[trying to squeeze a large radio into the sub] Japanese soldier: We've got to figure out how to make these things smaller!
Captain Wild Bill Kelso: My name's Wild Bill Kelso, and don't you forget it! Colonel "Madman" Maddox: That's the kind of talk I like to hear, boy. That's it, lemme hear your guns. Captain Wild Bill Kelso: My guns? Colonel "Madman" Maddox: Yes, I wanna hear what they sound like, let me hear 'em.
Wally Stephens: I've learned a very important lesson today, I'll never shop east of Beverly Hills.
Captain Wild Bill Kelso: War nerves? Who said war nerves? The Patron: I heard it on that radio there. [Kelso shoots the radio.] Captain Wild Bill Kelso: Radio's wrong.
Hollis P. Wood: [After seeing Captain von Kleinschmidt enter] Jesus Palomino, a Nazi. I knew it, you're all in cahoots. Well let me tell you something, Mr. Heinie Kraut, I fought your kind in the great war, and we kicked the living s**t out of you!
Reese and Foley are the names used by Robert Zemeckis and screenwriter Bob Gale for any police officers or government agents in films they have written.
The dialog between Claude and Herbie was written along the same lines as Ralph Kramden and Ed Norton. In fact, Jackie Gleason and Art Carney were offered the roles but Gleason refused, saying he would not and could not work with Carney any longer.
Spielberg has revealed that he almost made this film a musical.
The scene where Wild Bill Kelso slips and tumbles off of the wing of his airplane as he is about to take off was a real accident. John Belushi slipped as he was climbing into the plane. It was kept in the movie because it fit his character.
Credits Fun:
End credits feature scenes showing cast members screaming.
DVD Easter Eggs: (Hidden So You Don't See Anything You Don't Want To See)
Edition: Universal
Region: 1
Description: Isolated music score
From the disc’s main menu go to the 'Language Selection' and there select 'Spoken Language'. As one of the entries you will then see 'Isolated music score'. Select it and you will be able to enjoy John Williams’ fabulous score in its entirety.