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The astrolabe device that appears in the season 8 opening titles isn't just decoration, it's basically a visual timeline of the whole show. Look closely and you can spot the birth of Daenerys's dragons, the red comet from season two, and even a tiny dragon breaking through the Wall, referencing Viserion's attack.
Off camera, Diana Rigg who played the sharp-tongued Lady Olenna Tyrell apparently had the same razor wit at word games as she did delivering her lines. Natalie Dormer, who played Margaery, warned people not to bother challenging her to Scrabble or Words With Friends because she'd win every single time.
According to leftover development data, the wider Bat Family was originally going to be playable characters you could freely roam Arkham City as, not just in the Catwoman and Robin challenge maps we got. It got cut for the same reason a lot of ambitious ideas do on a big open-world game like this: not enough time to actually finish it properly.
Tucked away among the debris in one of the exploration-heavy Seattle areas is a glowing orb that looks suspiciously familiar to anyone who grew up with Naughty Dog's earlier platformer series. It's a straight-up reference to the Precursor Orbs collected throughout the Jak and Daxter games.
Whedon wrote a tight script overall but gave his cast room to improvise, and Downey Jr made the most of it. Lines like his dig at Thor, 'Doth mother know you wear-eth her drapes?', along with his closing 'let's just not come in tomorrow' at the end of the film, weren't in the original screenplay at all.
Stuntman Charles Jarman took a real beating filming the pencil scene, getting genuinely knocked unconscious three separate times across roughly 22 takes over two days. In one of the takes Heath Ledger actually broke character mid-scene to check if Jarman was okay before slipping straight back into the Joker.
Grab the Undead Nightmare DLC and you can genuinely track down and kill Bigfoot, a direct wink at the years of rumours that Bigfoot was hidden somewhere in GTA San Andreas. Rockstar basically decided to settle the debate by giving players the real thing, teeth and all.
During the epilogue, right as Vergil lights up Sergeant Johnson's cigar, nudge the right stick to the left and the camera drifts off to the side. You'll catch Buck crouched next to what looks like an ape, grooming it and, well, eating something out of its fur before the screen cuts to black. Look closer and that creature is wearing the face of Halo art director Marcus Lehto, the same joke used for the cavemen back in Halo 3's Sierra 117.
Fallout 4 sneaks in a good three Monty Python and the Holy Grail references through your companions. Cait can bring up the Black Knight fight ('what are you gonna do, leak oil all over me?'), Codsworth has his own Black Knight line ('Tis but a scratch!'), and Deacon has a whole bit about taunting turrets that mirrors the French Knight scene. All of it can slip by completely unnoticed if you're not paying attention to companion chatter.
During Destiny's public alpha, Ghost's flat delivery of a line about a wizard coming from the Moon was mocked so heavily online that Bungie pulled it from the final game entirely, an early sign the Ghost's dialogue and performance would become a lasting point of community ridicule.
