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Long before Adult Swim got involved, Rick and Morty existed as a scrappy little animated short Justin Roiland made back in 2006 called The Real Animated Adventures of Doc and Mharti. It was basically a filthy, unfiltered parody of Doc Brown and Marty McFly, and you can still spot the DNA of the finished show all over it.
Wander around long enough and you'll hear civilians drop lines like 'you can sail the seven seas' or 'there's no need to feel down.' They sound like throwaway barks, but they're actually nods to Village People lyrics.
Almost as soon as the game launched, players convinced themselves Bigfoot was hiding somewhere in the countryside near Back o' Beyond, and the rumor refused to die for years. Rockstar's own co-founder eventually shot it down publicly, though that didn't stop people from combing the woods with in-game cameras looking for him.
Thanks to an error on a wiki page, the black shield (h2) ended up trading on the Grand Exchange for roughly ten times its actual worth, and that mistaken price stuck around influencing trades for about three years before anyone properly corrected it.
Before she was piloting a mech for MEKA, Hana Song was a professional StarCraft player. It's a nice bit of world-building that ties the near-future setting back to Blizzard's other games without spelling it out — you'd only catch it if you actually read into her backstory.
A handful of characters woven into the series are based on real historical figures, and Winston Churchill is one of them, appearing across several episodes as Tommy's dealings pull him into the orbit of actual establishment power.
A lot of that sun-scorched, dune-covered wasteland footage wasn't built on a soundstage, it's the real Skeleton Coast in Namibia. The crew leaned on the natural desert landscape rather than heavy CGI, which is a big part of why the wasteland feels so tangible and lived-in compared to a lot of other big-budget shows.
Netflix's own numbers put the show at 18.5 million views and over 140 million hours watched in just its first four days, outpacing the opening of the streamer's earlier anime adaptation Cowboy Bebop by a wide margin.
The Seoul city government offered the production some pretty generous tax incentives to film there, which is a big part of why the Korean set pieces made it into the finished movie at all.
