23. When Tarantino and his writing associate Roger Avary received the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay (the one one the movie would win out of its seven nominations), the telecast unintentionally minimize to black—a gaffe Avary later took credit score for. 

“I paid off a cameraman 500 bucks to have the camera turned off on Quentin when they announced the award,” Avary revealed to Vanity Fair, wanting to tug one over on his prank-loving outdated good friend. “So if you watch it online, you’ll see it cuts to black briefly, and then they cut to me. Gotcha.”

24. For the infamous “Gimp” scene, Tarantino meant to make use of The Knack’s hit track “My Sharona.” (*25*), one other 1994 movie had already acquired it: Reality Bites.

Instead, he selected The Revel’s “Comache,” and Tarantino finally was grateful he did not get his first selection, telling Rolling Stone, “It would have been too cutely comic. I like using stuff for comic effect, but I don’t want it to be har, har, wink, wink, nudge, nudge, you know?”