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A rough, unfinished animatic of the Pickle Rick sewer sequence was shown off to fans at San Diego Comic-Con back in 2016, a full year before the finished episode actually aired on Adult Swim. Some fans even spent that year convinced it was some kind of elaborate April Fools joke because it took so long to show up on screen.
Ultron was meant to tower at eight or nine feet tall on screen, but James Spader is only five foot ten in real life. To help his co-stars actually know where to look while acting opposite him, he wore a tall wire contraption strapped to his back with two red balls on top, roughly marking where Ultron's eyes would eventually sit once the CGI was added.
Right after the movie recreates that cargo plane sequence, Nate and Chloe wash up on a beach and bump into a random sunbather who nods along like he's heard it all before. That's Nolan North himself, the actual voice of Drake in the games, getting a blink-and-you'll-miss-it cameo in a scene lifted from his own game.
Another special encounter drops you into a group of knights hunting for the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch, the same absurdly overpowered weapon from Monty Python's killer rabbit scene. Find it yourself and you get to carry around one of the game's funniest and most devastating explosives.
Jack Sparrow's now-famous line about having a jar of dirt wasn't in the script at all. Johnny Depp ad-libbed it on the spot, and the confused, amused reactions from the rest of the crew on camera are completely genuine.
Somewhere in Liberty City there's a billboard cheekily reading 'See you in Miami!' It's a straightforward tease for Vice City, dropped in well before anyone outside Rockstar knew where the next game was headed.
After meeting Niccolò Machiavelli, returning to the Palazzo Auditore courtyard and using Eagle Vision triggers a one-time-only vision of Ezio's entire deceased family standing around the palazzo.
Alongside Michael Dorn, Fallout 2's voice cast quietly pulled in Jeffrey Jones, Peter Jason, Kevin Michael Richardson, and Star Trek: The Next Generation's own Dwight Schultz. At the time, video game voice work was still seen as a bit of a novelty gig for actors, so landing this many recognisable names for a 1998 CRPG was a genuinely big deal.
The performers at the Aces theater in the Tops, led by Tommy Torini, are called the Rad Pack Revue, a direct play on the real-world Rat Pack of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., and friends. It goes a step further too, since actual Sinatra and Martin recordings show up on the in-game radio, tying the joke together nicely.
After assassinating Carlo Grimaldi, heading to the Venice dock area lets players find Da Vinci's flying machine still lying wrecked where it crashed earlier in the story.
