15 Things You Won't Have Noticed In Pulp Fiction

Whenever Vincent Vega goes to the toilet (which is a lot - constipation is a side effect of heroin), something bad happens. He emerges at Mia Wallace's house to find her overdosing, comes out at the restaurant to find a robbery unfolding and is shot dead by Butch after using his bathroom.

When the 'Buddy Holly' waiter (Steve Buscemi) asks Mia her if she wants her $5 shake "Martin and Lewis or Amos and Andy?", he's asking if she wants it vanilla or chocolate flavoured. Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis are white entertainers (vanilla), whereas Amos and Andy are black comedians (chocolate).

At the end of Pulp Fiction , Jules says he wants to become a "drifter." In Kill Bill Volume 2, Samuel L. Jackson appears as a piano-playing drifter, called Rufus.

After the movie's iconic dance scene, you see Vincent Vega and Mia Wallace walk into her house holding a trophy. The audience assumes they won the contest, but later in the film, a barely audible advert states the trophy had been stolen - meaning Vince and Mia lost the competition then stole the trophy.

A theme throughout the film is guns not being used as intended. A close-range gunshot miraculously misses Jules, Vincent accidentally shoots Marvin in the face, Butch shoots Vincent with a gun that was meant to kill him and, at the end of the film, it is Jules' gun that prevents violence in the coffee shop.

The character of Trudi (Bronagh Gallagher) wears a T-shirt of Irish rock band The Frames. This is because she appeared alongside Frames lead singer, Glen Hansard, in The Commitments , and promised she'd wear their T-shirt in Pulp Fiction if she got a part.

One of the movie's (many) unanswered questions is who keyed Vincent Vega's car. Years after the film's release, Tarantino admitted it was the work of Bruce Willis' character, Butch.

Chronologically speaking, the last scene in the movie sees Butch and Fabienne drive away on a motorcycle. The very first sound heard at the start of the movie is the same motorcycle's engine.

The dance that Vincent and Mia perform at Jack Rabbit Slims is a pastiche of Gloria Morin and Mario Mezzabotta's dance in 1963 film, 8½.

When Butch is driving from his apartment he's listening to Flowers on the Wall by The Statler Brothers, and sings along to the lyrics, "Smoking cigarettes and watching captain kangaroo". In Die Hard With A Vengeance, Samuel L. Jackson asks Bruce Willis' character John McClane what he's been doing. His reply? "Oh just smoking cigarettes, watching captain kangaroo."

Fabienne says, "Any time of the day is a good time for pie." This line is also said by Alabama in True Romance, written by Quentin Tarantino.

Marcellus Wallace being raped is ironic. He tells Butch, "In the fifth, your ass goes down." When interrogating Butch's trainer, he says to "Set the dogs on his ass", and when asked about Butch, he says "If he goes to Indo-China I want a n*gger in a bowl of rice ready to pop a cap in his ass." Wallace's preoccupation with punishing his enemies in 'the ass' comes back to bite him in his own.

The mystery of what's in Marcellus Wallace's briefcase has raged for years. Some argue it's Elvis' gold suit from True Romance, others the diamonds from Reservoir Dogs. The most popular theory is that it's Marcellus Wallace's soul, hence the case's glow, the plaster on the back of Wallace's head (this is where the soul is removed) and the combination - 666. In reality, the band aid on Wallace's head was used to cover a shaving scar suffered by actor Ving Rhames, and though Quentin Tarantino's original script had the briefcase containing diamonds, he quickly dismissed this as it was too similar to Reservoir Dogs. Instead, Tarantino thought it better to never reveal (or even decide) what was in the case, in the hope people would guess, speculate and create their own theories. It worked.

In a deleted scene, Vincent Vega tells Mia he's been fantasising about being beaten up by Emma Peel from The Avengers. Uma Thurman later played Emma Peel in the 1998 film.

When Bruce Willis escapes the pawn shop, he sees a neon sign that says 'Killian’s Red', but as some of the letters are missing it reads 'Kill ed'. Picking up Zed's keys, Butch looks at the 'Z' on the keyring, subliminally spelling out 'Kill Zed'. It's then that Butch goes back to save Marcellus.