The diner where Nick meets Calvin is featured in Nightcrawler (2014), Drive (2011) and Twilight (2008).
This opening episode attracted the series' biggest audience with 10.13 million viewers.
In the German Version the Nurse has the same dubbing Voice like Danai Gurira (Michonne) in The Walking Dead (2010).
This is the first pilot in the Walking Dead universe to be called simply "Pilot". It would be another five years before another instalment in the franchise would have its first episode similarly named - The Walking Dead: World Beyond (2020).