27 Easter Eggs Laid By Intrepid Nerds
Forget the goose! These nerds laid the golden eggs
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We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again: Nerds, dorks and dweebs never get enough credit for laying eggs. Okay, cool, so chickens probably lay more on a day-to-day basis, but it’s quality over quantity, people!
Most great movies and TV shows are led by a few clever little nerds, and if they feel sassy enough to scatter some eggy delights around for us? We’ll gladly grab a basket.
![EASTER EGGSTRA SPACE The Schlesinger CBM Gym where the Tune Squad practice is a reference to a cartoon producer. ERAL TRYDE SCHLESINGER GYM Leon Schlesinger, whose production company later became Warner Bros. Cartoons studios, brought the Looney Tunes series to life. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/3/0/936630.jpg)
![BENDER STAYS ALIVE AND IN HIS PRIME. STUDIO 123' Rebirth Bender dances in a place called Studio 12233-the prime factorization of Studio 54. 122133 = 1 x 2 x 27 = 54 CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/2/9/936629.jpg)
![EASTER EGGSTRA SPACE There are pro-union CRM messages scattered throughout the film. The 1940s was considered the golden era in animation. It was also the era of labor strikes and picketing animators who, in 1945, famously clashed with Burbank police outside Warner Bros. studios. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/2/8/936628.jpg)
![BENDER HAS THE PROCESSOR OF AN EARLY APPLE COMPUTER. 6502 Fry and the Slurm Factory A scan reveals that Bender is powered by a 6502 microprocessor, just like the Apple II computer from the late '70s. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/2/7/936627.jpg)
![COLLEEN LOVES EVERYONE (AND ALSO MATH). XATA The Beast with a Billion Backs Colleen O'Hallahan is seen wearing a shirt that expresses her all- encompassing love with math symbols: For all X, I love x. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/2/6/936626.jpg)
![GRACKED WE CAN SEE E.T.'S PALS IN STAR WARS: THE PHANTOM MENACE. George Lucas confirmed that 3 members of the Galactic Senate are members of the same species as Е.Т. This returned the favor, since Spielberg included a Yoda costume in Е.Т.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/2/5/936625.jpg)
![CRACKED THE SUBTLE FORESHADOWING IN BATMAN RETURNS. Right before Selina Kyle is thrown out of the window, the underlighting of her eyeglasses project a shadow of the Catwoman mask on her face.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/2/4/936624.jpg)
![GRACKED JACQUES HENRI LARTIGUE'S WORK IS ALL OVER RUSHMORE. The now-famous shot of Max sitting on a go-kart wearing goggles was inspired by a photo by French photographer Jacques Henri Lartigue. The real photo, as well as several others by Lartigue, appear behind Max in the film.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/2/3/936623.jpg)
![CRACKED EMERGENCY Schedule Doctor isembowel Kenny Chumsky actice got swing Petracco All Employe Colon surgery Varma must wash Rectal surgery Turdiman KB Bond No before surg SOUTH PARK GIVES A NOD TO A CLASSIC BOND VILLAIN. In South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut, when Kenny is rushed to the hospital, there's a board with the doctors' schedules on it. At the bottom, Dr. No's schedule is to kill Bond.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/2/2/936622.jpg)
![Easter Eggs of Oscar-winning movies 2004 Picture Director Adapted Screenplay Original Score Original Song Sound Mixing Art Direction Makeup Costume Design Film Editing Visual Effects The Return of the King A background character in Fellowship caused fans to fall in love. Nicknamed Figwit, he returned for Return of the King and even got some lines this time. (Figwit = Frodo Is great-Who Is That?) CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/2/1/936621.jpg)
![Easter Eggs of Oscar-winning movies 1982 Art Direction Film Editing Sound Sound Effects Editing Visual Effects Raiders of the Lost Ark The movie features a cameo by С-ЗРО and R2D2 on the walls of the room the Ark of the Covenant was kept in. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/2/0/936620.jpg)
![Easter Eggs of Oscar-winning movies 2009 Supporting Actor Sound Editing Cinematography Film Editing Art Direction The Dark Knight Bruce Wayne's car is a Lamborghini Murciélago. Murciélago is Spanish for bat. So it's a Batmobile. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/1/9/936619.jpg)
![Easter Eggs of Oscar-winning movies Parasite 2020 Director Picture Original Screenplay International Feature Film Clear visual lines are used throughout the movie to stablish the social and economic lines dividing the characters. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/1/8/936618.jpg)
![Pixar Easter Eggs 84 Cars Apple car Steve Jobs was one of Pixar's first investors and stayed as its CEO until 2006. As an tribute, a sleek Apple car appears emblazoned with the number 84. (1984 was the year the Apple Macintosh computer first came out.) CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/1/7/936617.jpg)
![Pixar Easter Eggs Incredibles 2 Jonny Quest Younger readers might not know this, but Jonny Quest was a kickass cartoon from the '60s about a kid having adventures with his scientist father. The show appears very clearly on a TV screen. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/1/2/936612.jpg)
![Pixar Easter Eggs Onward W 13 HADES Quest Master MCU The 2020 movie has a bunch of allusions to the cultural juggernaut that is the Marvel Cinematic Universe, including references to Hydra and the Infinity Gauntlet. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/1/6/936616.jpg)
![Pixar Easter Eggs - wit - SM Seoul 1 Toy Story 3 Totoro The critter from Hayao Miyazaki's 1988 My Neighbor Totoro is all over the movie, including the last scene. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/1/4/936614.jpg)
![MCU Phase One Easter Eggs The Captain America: The First Avenger The Human Torch The Synthetic Man, the original Human Torch makes an appearance in Steve Rogers' premiere film. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/1/5/936615.jpg)
![MCU Phase One Easter Eggs Iron Man Fin Fang Foom As Tony test drives his armor, he flies past a billboard featuring Fin Fang Foom-a dragon-like alien villain from the comics. GRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/1/3/936613.jpg)
![MCU Phase One Easter Eggs Johnson The Avengers Life Model Decoy Tony jokingly pretends to be a Life Model Decoy -which is a human-looking android used by S.H.I.E.L.D. in the comics. ACTIVATE THE DEVICE NOW! PRIORITY OVERROS SEVEN NOW GET THE HELL OUT DON'T DE OF MYSTRATO ROCULOUS. SPHERE BEFORE THOUSANDS I HAVE EVERY- ONE UNDER DE SURVEILLANCE CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/0/9/936609.jpg)
![MCU Phase One Easter Eggs Iron Man Captain America's shield When Pepper walks in on Tony undressing, a version of Cap's shield can be seen on the work bench. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/1/0/936610.jpg)
![MCU Phase One Easter Eggs Arnim Zola Some blueprints Doctor Zola grabs are for a robotic body like the one he has in the comics. Captain America: The First Avenger CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/1/1/936611.jpg)
![A minor character in Harry Potter is a tribute to a real fan. Harry Potter AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE CRACKED.COM In 1999 when she was still a hero to children everywhere, J.K. Rowling received a communication about a fan with Leukemia named Natalie. Rowling responded with the future storylines of all the books' characters, but unfortunately it was too late and Natalie never saw. In honor of her, Rowling added Natalie as a named character in The Goblet of Fire.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/0/4/936604.jpg)
![Harrison Ford's influence knows no time or space. LEGENDS STAR WARS THE PARADISE ESNARE THE HAN SOLO TRILOGY BOOK A. C. CRISPIN CRACKED.COM In volume one of the 1997 Han Solo trilogy, The Paradise Snare, it's revealed that Han uses the alias Jenos Idanian in the events prior to A New Hope. Unscrambling the name and switching the order will give you Indiana Jones, which hardcore movie fans recognize as another character played by Harrison Ford.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/0/7/936607.jpg)
![EASTER EGGSTRA REFERENCES & HIDDEN MEANINGS CRACKED.COM SCHITT'S CREEK The Birth of Venus Moira's long locks during the wedding is an homage to Botticelli's Italian Renaissance masterpiece. The idea came about when Catherine O'Hara suggested Moira be dressed like the Pope.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/0/8/936608.jpg)
![Easter Eggs YOUTH OF Sound of Metal Ruben's emotional journey is charted by the band shirts he wears. RUDIMENTARY PENI CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/0/6/936606.jpg)
![Easter Eggs Supernatural Show creator Eric Kripke had Castiel wear John Constantine's clothes, as a homage to DC's supernatural hunter. GRACKED COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/0/5/936605.jpg)