Trivia
There is a tribute to Airplane! during the Hostage Rescue mission. When the screen loads one man can be overheard saying, "Surely you can't be serious?", with the other man replying "I'm serious..and don't call me Shirley". This is a homage to a scene between Leslie Nielsen and Robert Hays during the movie.
The scene for COD 4 can be seen here with the scene from Airplane! here.
On the multiplayer map "Vacant", in the outside area, a truck is parked. Its licence plate reads: "Я3T4ЯD0", obviously a nod to the word "retardo", which is slang for "retard".
Contributed by
Steve . (134) on Jun 10, 2009.
The game is referenced in detail during a conversation in the 2008 movie The Wrestler. While playing the fictitious game Wrestle Jam on an 8-bit Nintendo console, a boy tells Randy 'The Ram' Robinson about CoD4.
Contributed by
Sciere 
(122482) on Feb 22, 2009.
Infinity Ward considered over 1,000 names before settling on Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, including more humorous titles such as Call of Duty: Warnado.
