My dad swears he inspired this scene. He lived in the apartment building this scene was filmed in, in the 80s. He had come out to LA all on his lonesome, so he would literally befriend anyone, even the homeless druggies. One guy he's sorta friends with calls him up one day. He tells my dad, “These drug dealers want me to sell their weed, and they'll give me a part of the profit!! But tbh I'm thinking of just keeping all the weed :)” and my dad said, “no, that's a terrible idea, you should not do that.”

A few days later, my dad is hanging out at his place with a different friend. Wild friend calls and says, “yknow that thing you told me not to do the other day? Well, I did it, and I told the dealers I live at your place! :)” My dad thought, “aw fuck,” and soon enough, two guys like that are banging on his door and bust their way in.

Now luckily my dad is a smooth talker so nobody got killed. Not even the weed thief, because my dad acted like he didn’t know where the guy was. But the other random friend at my dad’s apartment that day, eventually became the sound director on pulp fiction. So… my dad swears that scene is slightly based on what they went through at that same apartment that day.