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  • No Budget: Before Columbia financed post-production (to create a Dolby Stereo track and clean up the picture), the production budget was $7,000 ($3,000 earned from Rodriguez being a human guinea pig for medical testing).
  • Throw It In: The turtle, which was simply found by the road by a crew member one day. Also the dubbed line about free coconuts, which Rodriguez added when he realized they'd forgotten to film the Mariachi paying for the coconut.