History Trivia / SiliconValley

** Jared's inexplicable nighttime German ramblings originate from an experience that actor Zach Woods had. According to his roommate, he awoke from a sound sleep and announced, "I hate the Jews!" and promptly fell back asleep. Woods, who is Jewish, has no memory of the event.

* RealitySubtext: Everyone mocking Dinesh's gold chain is based on an actual experience Kumail Nanijiani had in high school. Apparently the real insults were much worse.

* WriteWhatYouKnow: The Richard subplot in "Proof of Concept" is based on some real life drama that happened to one of the writers: They were going out with a woman, they broke up, the woman kept trashing him behind his back by saying he was obsessed with her, and when the two ran into each other one day, the guy wanted to set the record straight that he ''wasn't'' obsessed with her, but the woman wasn't convinced.

* CastingGag: [[Film/TheInternship It's not the first time Big Head works at a giant tech company.]]

* TheCharacterDiedWithHim: Christopher Evan Welch (Peter Gregory) died partway through filming season 1. The character was PutOnABus for the final three episodes, and died in the first episode of season 2.

* CastingGag: [[Film/TheInternship It's not the first time Big Head is involved at a giant tech company.]]

** Jian Yang's "Not Hotdog" app is available in the App Store, it can be downloaded [[https://itunes.apple.com/app/not-hotdog/id1212457521 here]]. And yes, it can actually tell you whether it's a hotdog or not. Unlike in the show, however, it can [[spoiler: tell a dick from a hotdog.]] Jian-Yang also appeared on Bloomberg Tech's official Twitter to talk about the app, although he quickly switches to [[spoiler: taking advantage of the audience he has to humiliate Erlich for cashing out beforehand]].

** Jian Yang's "Not Hotdog" app is available in the App Store, it can be downloaded [[https://itunes.apple.com/app/not-hotdog/id1212457521 here]]. And yes, it can actually tell you whether it's a hotdog or not. Unlike in the show, however, it can [[spoiler: tell a dick from a hotdog.]]

** Jian Yang's "Not Hotdog" app is available in the App Store, it can be downloaded [[https://itunes.apple.com/app/not-hotdog/id1212457521 here]]. And yes, it can actually tell you whether it's a hotdog or not.

** Jian Yang's "Not Hotdog" App is available in the App Store, it can be downloaded [[https://itunes.apple.com/app/not-hotdog/id1212457521 here]].

* WriteWhatYouKnow: The Richard subplot in "Proof of Concept" is based on some real life drama that happened to one of the writers: They were going out with a woman, they broke up, the woman kept trashing him behind his back by saying he was obsessed with her, and when the two ran into each other one day, the guy wanted to set the record straight that he ''wasn't'' obsessed with her, but the woman wasn't convinced.

* RealitySubtext: Everyone mocking Dinesh's gold chain is based on an actual experience Kumail Nanijiani had in high school. Apparently the real insults were much worse.

* PosthumousCredit: Christopher Evan Welch (Peter Gregory), died of lung cancer in December 2013 at the age of 48 and after having only shot 5 of the 8 planned episodes. Instead of recasting his role (since the series had not premiered yet), the writers wrote Peter Gregory out of the last few episodes.

* HeyItsThatGuy:
** Hud from ''Film/{{Cloverfield}}'' moved to Silicon Valley, sold his company, and now runs an "incubator."
** [[Series/FreaksAndGeeks Bill Haverchuck]]/[[Series/PartyDown Roman DeBeers]]/[[Film/VeronicaMars Cobb]] is [=LeVeyan=] Satanist with theistic tendencies.
** [[Series/TheOfficeUS Gabe]] moved away from Scranton and to Silicon Valley to work at Hooli.
** [[Series/FranklinAndBash Pindar]] quit being a social stunted lawyer to become a slightly less social stunted programmer.
** [[Series/MadMen Ginsberg]] got over his fear of computers and is now advising Richard as a lawyer.
** [[Literature/AmericanPsycho Luis]] left his banking firm in Manhattan to create and run Hooli.
** [[Film/LAConfidential 'Badge of Honor' star Brett Chase]] is a terrible attorney. Good thing he's not an attorney.

** The Weissman Score was something created by the writers to try and convey a metric to an audience that might not necessarily be well-versed in computer programming. But the producers had Stanford researcher actually develop a legitimate equation that is slowly gaining traction in the research community.

* {{Defictionalization}}: The Weissman Score was something created by the writers to try and convey a metric to an audience that might not necessarily be well-versed in computer programming. But the producers had Stanford researcher actually develop a legitimate equation that is slowly gaining traction in the research community. Also, the middle-out compression algorithm that Pied Piper uses on the show might actually become the basis of a new theory that could truly revolutionize data compression in the real world.

** Hud from Film/{{Cloverfield}} moved to Silicon Valley, sold his company, and now runs an "incubator."

** [[MadMen Ginsberg]] got over his fear of computers and is now advising Richard as a lawyer.

** [[LAConfidential 'Badge of Honor' star Brett Chase]] is a terrible attorney. Good thing he's not an attorney.

* HarpoDoesSomethingFunny: The core cast is made up of seasoned improv comedians so much of the show comes from them riffing off of one another.

** [[Series/TheOfficeUS Gabe]] moved away from Scranton and to Silicon Valley to work at Hooli.

* HeyItsThatGuy: Hud from Film/{{Cloverfield}} moved to Silicon Valley, sold his company, and now runs an "incubator."

** [[Series/FreaksAndGreeks Bill Haverchuck]]/[[Series/PartyDown Roman DeBeers]]/[[Film/VeronicaMars Cobb]] is LeVeyan Satanist with theistic tendencies.