Pulp Fiction/YMMV

• Award Snub: Come Oscar time, Pulp Fiction was nominated for 7 Awards but only won for Best Screenplay (Original). It was going up that year against Forrest Gump, and there's been debate over which movie deserved the Oscars ever since.
  • Subverted with the Cannes Festival, however, where it was awarded the Palme d'Or by a jury headed by Clint Eastwood, no less, to the shock of many film critics.
• Awesome Music: The entire soundtrack
• Badass Decay: Vincent. Initially he appears to be competent, but as the movie progress, you can see that his brain's not really in there.
  • Though, to be fair, he had just come back from a vacation and was high on drugs for most of his time in the movie. Pretty competent for someone who's perpetually high as a kite.
• Complete Monster: It says something that, in a film with loads of amoral characters, Zed and Maynard come across as the most horrific and despicable.
• Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory: Especially on the question of what, exactly, is in that suitcase. One such suggestion? Marcellus Wallace's soul.
• Faux Symbolism: Lampshaded.
  • In fact, according to Cracked's website, Jules' life is based on the life of St. Moses the Black.
• Fountain of Memes: This film has one of the highest quotability quotients of all time.
• Genius Bonus:
  • The truckload of pop culture references and Shout Outs.
  • If you know that The Wolf's car is a two-seater, you'll know that he didn't refuse to drop Vincent and Jules off because they live too far away. He never meant it.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: It's hard not to laugh at Christopher Walken's cameo when you think about his past role in The Deer Hunter.
• Memetic Mutation: The film spawned many memes that were especially popular in the 90's.
  • "What?" "English, motherfucker! Do you speak it!?", getting medieval, etc.
  • "My (anything you want) is the one that says "Bad Motherfucker" on it."
  • (Christopher Walken imitation) "I hid this uncomfortable hunk of metal -- up my ass ..."
  • "This IS a tasty burger!"
  • The dance.
    • Done onstage by Johnny Cash and his wife June Carter on their '95 tour, during the bridge of "Jackson".
  • "Does he look like a bitch?" Bonus points when the game Guess Who is involved.
• Older Than They Think: Jules' "Biblical" quote is actually based on the one used in the U.S. version of Karate Kiba (The Bodyguard) by Shinichi "Sonny" Chiba.
• Retroactive Recognition: Phil LaMarr was about a year away from Mad TV. He also went on to a successful voice-acting career.