At the Wrangler, Jimmy Buffett's backup band features not only local Livingston resident (at the time) Warren Oates, but also neighbor, film screenwriter and future brother-in-law Thomas McGuane (with the long hair playing mandolin).
Jeff Bridges met his wife, Susan Bridges - aka Susan Geston - during filming. She was working in a diner when he asked her out and she told him, "No, maybe I'll see you around town," which she did at the wrap party for the movie.
Contains a scene in which Jeff Bridges and Harry Dean Stanton have a discussion in a bar while playing PONG, the first widely-released arcade video game, first sold by Atari in 1972. Both actors spent copious amounts of their off-time in the bar playing the game, so much so that the game was incorporated into the scene. Bridges would later literally get sucked into the video game world in Disney's TRON, released in 1982.
Frank Perry gave Joe Spinell an engraved horseshoe for playing Mr. Colson in the film after production on the movie wrapped.
Sam Waterston's character Cecil is confirmed as Native American by Richard Bright's character Burt when they meet and Burt is disappointed because he was hoping that Cecil would be Jewish since "Indians are bad at pool".