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The wardrobe on this show is never random. In the pilot, Walt swaps his beige clothes for a green apron the moment he starts cooking meth for the first time — green being the show's colour for money and transformation. It's basically the visual moment he starts becoming someone else.
Before they landed on the name we all know, Infinity Ward reportedly went through well over a thousand potential titles for the game. Some of the rejected ones were properly daft too, including the frankly brilliant Call of Duty: Warnado.
The Vidmaster Challenges weren't actually part of Halo 3 when it launched in September 2007. They were added almost a year later through a title update released in September 2008, meaning the toughest achievements in the game were a post-launch surprise for the community rather than a day-one feature.
Normally the game scolds you and resets the checkpoint the instant you turn a gun on an ally, and Reznov is no exception, at least at first. Players eventually noticed that shooting him during his introduction in Vorkuta gets the usual 'you betrayed your comrades' warning, but doing it in any of his later appearances triggers different dialogue entirely, a subtle nod to the fact he isn't really there anymore.
The battered meth-lab-on-wheels was a genuine 1986 Fleetwood Bounder. The actual RV used in filming got destroyed as part of the story, but a couple of replicas were built afterward and still get shown off to fans.
During the Helm's Deep shoot, Mortensen broke a tooth and asked if there was any superglue lying around so he could just stick it back on and keep filming. Producer Barrie M. Osborne wasn't having it and sent him to an actual dentist instead.
Dominic Monaghan isn't much of a smoker, so before filming the scene of Merry and Pippin puffing away at Isengard, he'd drink milk beforehand just to keep from getting sick on camera.
There was genuine internal discussion about making Cassie Drake the lead instead of Chloe. The idea got dropped for a few reasons: the team worried she'd feel too much like a Lara Croft clone, an adult Cassie suddenly gunning down mercenaries felt tonally wrong, and honestly, Nate and Elena would never sign off on their daughter living that life.
Notch selling Minecraft to Microsoft wasn't some long boardroom saga, by his own account it kicked off after he vented his frustration with the community in a single tweet in June 2014. A few months later Microsoft had bought Mojang for $2.5 billion, and Notch, along with co-founders Carl Manneh and Jakob Porser, walked away from the company entirely.
Darren Aronofsky's 2008 film The Wrestler has a scene where a kid explains the game to Randy 'The Ram' Robinson while they're playing a fictional title on an old console together, a nice little nod to how big it had become in pop culture by then.
