The film was first released about four years after its source title song "Take This Job and Shove It", the country music song written by David Allan Coe and sung by Johnny Paycheck, which supplied the movie's title, had been first performed in 1977.

First feature film to feature a monster truck. The appearance of Robert B. Chandler's "Bigfoot" monster truck is the first appearance of such a vehicle in a movie, and generally credited with nationalizing the monster truck craze. Bigfoot trucks appeared in Cannonball Run II (1984), Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment (1985), Police Academy 6: City Under Siege (1989), Road House (1989), Tango & Cash (1989), and Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003).

The name of the beer factory seen in the film was the Dubuque Star Brewery in Dubuque, Iowa. The heritage building still stands today (February 2018) with its adaptive re-use being as a bar and grill entertainment facility.

The make, model and color of the monster truck was a blue 1974 Ford F-250 pick-up truck with the front end of a 1979 version and named "Bigfoot".

The appearance of Bob Chandler's "Bigfoot" monster truck is the first appearance of such a vehicle in a movie, and generally credited with nationalizing the monster truck craze. Bigfoot trucks appeared in Cannonball Run II (1984), Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment (1985), Police Academy 6: Under Siege (1989), Road House (1989), Tango & Cash (1989), and Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2000).

David Allan Coe: The writer of the country song "Take This Job And Shove It" as Mooney.

Johnny PayCheck: The singer of the country song "Take This Job and Shove It", as a man with hamburgers.

Robert B. Chandler: Uncredited, the creator of the Bigfoot monster truck as the flagman at the start of the race.

Martin Mull: As Dick Ebersol.

Art Carney: As Charlie Pickett.