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Rather than being embarrassed by criticism calling the show inappropriate, the marketing team leaned right into it for season two promos, plastering lines like 'mind-blowingly inappropriate' and 'every parent's nightmare' straight from critics onto the ads.
Even after starring in the finale where the mystery blogger's identity gets revealed, Ed Westwick has admitted he genuinely still isn't sure who Gossip Girl actually was.
There's a genuinely funny poster on one of the balconies in Verrückt written in German that translates to 'Unattended children will be immediately sold to the circus.' Bit of dark comic relief hidden in an otherwise pretty grim map.
Dan Harmon has said the whole concept behind Pickle Rick was directly inspired by the Breaking Bad episode 4 Days Out, where Walt and Jesse get stranded in the desert and have to survive using nothing but their wits and whatever junk is lying around. Swap the desert for a sewer full of rats and you've basically got Rick's version of the same survival story.
Barlog has admitted the single-shot camera was a hard sell internally. He's said around 40% of the team only came around to the idea after the game was finished and they sat down to actually play it themselves.
Keep an eye on the background during any of the show's big interdimensional or portal-hopping episodes, there's a small pink and blue alien creature that the animators have snuck into pretty much every single one of them as a running visual gag for eagle-eyed fans.
The retired, cane-wielding hero Gran Torino shares more than just a name with Clint Eastwood's 2008 film. Both are grumpy old war veterans who feel disconnected from the world around them but still can't help stepping in to protect people when it counts.
Before RC cars became a recurring bit in later games, GTA III was the one that introduced them to the franchise.
During Never Surrender, if you flip a switch on a far-off platform near the hospital and make your way back to Club Errera, the whole place transforms. Instead of gunfire you get grunts and a Brute DJ spinning 'Siege of Madrigal' like it's the end of the world (which, to be fair, it kind of is). That track's actually a callback to Bungie's old Myth games, so it's been quietly following the studio around for years.
