Bryan Cranston's cameo as the show's villain was shot for the Amazon pilot after CBS passed on it.
Many of the characters have the same name as members of Bryan Cranston's family: Audrey (his mother), Otto (his grandfather) and Taylor (his daughter). Additionally, Cranston's character, Vince, is named after Breaking Bad (2008) creator Vince Gilligan.
Bryan Cranston's nickname when he was younger was "Sneaky Pete," a fact he disclosed in his recent autobiography "A Life in Parts."
When Otto goes to visit Irish Moe at the bar in the show's seventh episode, there are a lot of Celtic Football Club memorabilia in his office. The club is in fact Scottish, but the reasons behind the founding of Celtic Football Club were largely connected to the Irish immigrant community in Glasgow's east end in the late 19th century.
Ethan Embry, Giovanni Ribisi and Bryan Cranston all starred in the film That Thing You Do! (1996). Ribisi and Cranston both also appeared in Saving Private Ryan (1998).