- Awesome, Dear Boy: Why they did "Ignorance Is Bliss" for the Nintendo-themed album White Knuckle Scorin'; while no one in the band was a huge fan of video games, Andy Sturmer accepted the offer to challenge himself creatively, and ended up having a lot of fun writing the song (and a lot of fun recording it, if his vocal delivery is anything to go by). Ironically, it is the only song on the compilation to have anything do with Mario or any of Nintendo's franchises.
- Creative Differences: What ended the band. Jason Falkner's departure from the band in 1991 was according to him over Andy and Roger promising Jason they would let him write for the band, then going back on that promise. They deliberately dominated the band's creative directions after having been under the wing of another songwriter/leader in Beatnick Beatch; they wanted Jellyfish all to themselves as their creative outlet. Manning and Sturmer later made it up to Jason following the band's breakup.
- Keep Circulating the Tapes: "Ignorance is Bliss" has been relatively easy to find since its inclusion on the band's 2006 best-of album The Best hits compilation, but the version on that album is not the mix that was originally released on the White Knuckle Scoring compilation released by Nintendo in 1991.
- Reclusive Artist: Andy Sturmer. The only thing that's known about him these days is that he prefers to be a composer for children's television shows.
- Similarly Named Works: "Hush" from Spilt Milk is not a cover of the Deep Purple song.
- Short-Lived, Big Impact: They only lasted for four years (1990–94), went through two lineups (three if you count the trio format depicted in the Spilt Milk artwork and "Ghost at Number One" video) and released two albums, but the band (and their individual ex-bandmembers) had a huge influence on Alternative Power Pop, J-Pop and Baroque Pop artists.
- They Also Did:
- Sturmer has gone on to produce and write for Puffy AmiYumi (who covered Jellyfish's "Joining a Fan Club"), and scored soundtracks for Teen Titans (2003), Ben 10, My Friends Tigger & Pooh, Kick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil and Fish Hooks. He also formed a one-off supergroup called LEO along with Bleu and Taylor Hanson, which released a spot on pastiche album of ELO called Alpacas Orgling in 2003.
- Roger Manning has worked as a session musician/backing band member with Air, Beck, Morrissey, Glen Campbell, Cheap Trick and blink-182 (he plays the piano and synth during the bridge of "All the Small Things"). He was also in the band Imperial Drag, who released one album.
- He and friend Brian Kehewnote formed musical/comedy duo the Moog Cookbook in the late 1990's, playing tongue-in-cheek covers of alternative rock hits (on their Self-Titled Album) and classic rock songs (the followup, Ye Olde Space Bande) In the Style of 1970s "Moog records" using vintage synths. Their electro-Muzak version of the Foo Fighters' "Big Me" is playing on the elevator Dave Grohl is riding in in the beginning of the "Monkey Wrench" video.
- Original guitarist Jason Falkner guested on a Paul McCartney album, and recorded two instrumental Beatles lullaby tribute albums under the banner of ''Bedtime with The Beatles". Falkner and Roger Manning also teamed up with Redd Kross drummer Brian Reitzell in 1980s-influenced one-off band TV Eyes.
- Latter-period guitarist Eric Dover has played guitar and sung in Slash's Snakepit, and more recently was a guitarist for Alice Cooper.
- Chris Manning is currently (2014) an engineer, having mixed
for Metallica and Santana. - Tim Smith played bass with Sheryl Crow in the early 2000s.
- Troubled Production: Both of their albums were fraught with this. Bellybutton was plagued by creative and personal differences between songwriters Andy Sturmer and Roger Manning, and guitarist/bassist Jason Falkner. Split Milk was produced behind schedule and over-budget, as well as with increasing tensions between band members, whose relationships with each other were already crumbling following the Bellybutton sessions. It all culminated in the band's early demise in 1994.
- What Could Have Been: As mentioned on the main page, Andy Sturmer and Roger Manning tried to collaborate with Brian Wilson while the band was between albums. Their sole session together, which Roger described as "utterly surreal", ended up being unproductive.
- Before joining Jellyfish, Jason Falkner once auditioned to join New Kids on the Block.
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