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37 Pop-Culture Easter Eggs It Took Us Forever to Figure Out

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37 Pop-Culture Easter Eggs It Took Us Forever to Figure Out

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Hmm. Well, it turns out that film, TV and video-game makers are fans of other films, shows and video games. We had no idea. But once we gave their work another pass, we were shocked to find out that they left these little hints of their fandom by way of some secretive little nods. Paying attention can actually be cool sometimes!

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CROSSOVER EASTER EGGS ALIEN AND PREDATOR An alien skull hanging on a Predator ship wall in Predator 2 led to a long-awaited crossover. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CROSSOVER EASTER EGGS CASPER AND GHOSTBUSTERS Casper is almost busted by Dan Akroyd's Ray Stantz. STANTZ CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM CROSSOVER EASTER EGGS COMMUNITY AND COUGAR TOWN Abed appears in the background of an episode of Cougar Town. On Community he reveals he pooped himself during the scene. — Source

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St. Elsewhere

CRACKED.COM CROSSOVER EASTER EGGS ST. ELSEWHERE AND CHEERS Not only did St. Elsewhere keep dropping references to other shows, but an episode takes place in the bar from Cheers. — Source

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CROSSOVER EASTER EGGS E.T. AND STAR WARS E.T.'s startled reaction to Yoda implies what The Phantom Menace shows - that they belong in the same universe. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Pixar’s Pizza Truck

CRACKED.COM CROSSOVER EASTER EGGS PIXAR MOVIES The Pizza Planet truck appears in pretty much every movie made by Pixar. PISTON CUP Chick — Source

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CROSSOVER EASTER EGGS KANG THE CONQUEROR IN MOON KNIGHT One of Kang's Egyptian variants appears on a thug's jacket in Moon Knight. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Watchmen

WARNER DROOK AND PARAMOUNT PICTU BOAR IFE CROSSOVER EASTER EGGS WATCHMEN AND BATMAN A couple looking a lot like Thomas and Martha Wayne exit a theater just as Nite Owl knocks the lights out of their would-be robber. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Game of Thrones

Easter Eggs for Polyglots Game of Thrones Your mother was a hamster! The Mereenese champion who challenges Daenerys and her army in Season 4 speaks Valyrian and not French, but his taunts come straight from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Boogie Nights has a nod to Raging Bull. The last scene, when Dirk Diggler talks to himself in the mirror, is an homage to the last scene of Raging Bull - where pretty much the same thing happens. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Bumblebee has a shout-out to John Carpenter. DRAGON OF THE BLACK DRAGON OF THE TOOL BLACK POOL CANTONESE CANTONESE CUISINE CUISINE They snuck the facade of Wang Chi's eatery in Big Trouble in Little China, into the background of the town in Bumblebee. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Mugatu in Zoolander is named after a Star Trek monster. خمصة Star Trek's Mugato is a giant ape-like monster that showed up in the original series. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Sonic the Hedgehog has a shout-out to Apocalypse Now. It's when Dr. Robotnik uses a piece of metal to shave his head -- that's a nod to Colonel Kurtz. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Tangled Easter Eggs

Tangled has a shout-out to Lion King. In the I Have A Dream scene, Pumbaa is in the Snuggly Duckling tavern. CRACKED.COM — Source

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One of Tony's Als in Avengers: Age of Ultron is from Big Hero 6. EXOUTA PRIDAY ADAS One of the labels says Tadashi, and Tadashi Hamada is the creator of Baymax in Big Hero 6. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Spider-Man 2

There's a Doctor Strange Easter egg in Spider-Man 2. 233 Bleeker Street (212) 366-1182 The pizza shop Peter works for is in Bleeker Street, and the address of Doctor Strange's Sanctum Sanctorum is 177A Bleecker Street. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Coco

Coco has a couple of nods to The Shining. When Dante wakes up, there's an axe behind him-- it's one of the axes from The Shining. And there's a red drum, too, which is an elaborate reference to Redrum. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Easter Eggs for Polyglots King Kong show me the monkey. The ship Carl Denham is traveling on receives a message ordering Denham's arrest - but what the Morse code beeps actually spell is, SHOW ME THE MONKEY. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Mulan

Easter Eggs for Polyglots Mulan Eye candy The fake name Mulan gives, Fa Ping, translates flower vase -a term roughly equivalent to eye candy, which is exactly what she's meant to be at the beginning. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Easter Eggs for Polyglots Anchorman We spit in your food. A Mexican restaurant is called Escupimos en su alimento, Spanish for We spit in your food. Classy, San Diego. OPEN 7 Days WELCOME HONGOS Escupimos en su Alimento 50 CRACKED.COM — Source

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Fight Club

Easter Eggs of Oscar-winning movies Fight Club 2000 Sound Editing do (nominated) COFFEE There's a Starbucks cup in nearly every scene. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Raiders of the Lost Ark

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 — Source

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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 — Source

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Toy Story 3

Easter Eggs of Oscar-winning movies PRE 2011 Toy Animated Feature Story 3 Original Song Each Pixar film features foreshadowing for the next film in line. Toy Story 3 has a bunch of Cars references. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Wall-E

Easter Eggs of Oscar-winning movies WALLE 2009 Animated Feature WALL-E In one scene, you can see Rex... thousands of years after the events of Toy Story. Gathering dust. Mad? CRACKED.COM — Source

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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 — Source

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Detective Pikachu

Easter eggs in video game movies Detective Pikachu Mewtwo references an event 20 years ago. This film came out 20 years after Pokémon: The First Movie, about Mewtwo's origins. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Uncharted

Easter eggs in video game movies Uncharted The end of the film sets up the entire Uncharted series, with references to Nathan Drake's brother, Sully's mustache, and Roman, the first game's villain. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Easter eggs in video game movies Prince of Persia Alfred Molina is in here as a callback to his role in Raiders of the Lost Ark, itself a huge inspiration for the Prince of Persia games. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Easter eggs in video game movies street Fighter Bison blows up ships using the Street Fighter II control panel from the arcade game. CRACKED.COM — Source

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In Aladdin, a lot of the scene where Aladdin takes the lamp was lifted from Raiders of the Lost Ark. The filmmakers even apologized to Spielberg for stealing so much of the imagery, but he said that was okay, because he'd stolen it from other movies. CRACKED.COM — Source

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In Thor: The Dark World, a simple Loki gesture is actually a Steve McQueen homage. When Loki lies on his bunk and tosses his cup in the air, then catches it, that's a reference to Steve McQueen's character doing the same thing with a baseball in solitary confinement in The Great Escape. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Kong: Skull Island

Athena in Kong: Skull Island has an homage to Alien. ٨ I I С V ATHENA Director Jordan Vogt-Roberts deliberately made the lettering on the ship reminiscent of Alien, to make the ship his dumb, unnecessary nod to that movie. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The tentacles on The Iron Giant's back were an old-school movie reference. They were Brad Bird's way of paying homage to the 1953 The War of the Worlds movie. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Friday

The Fate of the Furious director F. Gary Gray put in an homage to his first film, Friday. It's when Tej says Hey Miss Parker, and it's kind of his substitute for a director cameo (which he doesn't like to do, because he's a terrible actor, he says) - in Friday, Ice Cube and Chris Tucker call out Hey Miss Parker to a girl in their neighborhood. CRACKED.COM — Source

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John Wick: Chapter 3 put in an homage to The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. John Wick putting together a gun from the components of different guns is basically lifted straight from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, where Tuco does the same thing --including listening to the cylinder. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Jurassic Park

Apparently, Jurassic Park and Face/Off are in the same universe. C.R35 Gen There's an InGen container in a Face/Off scene --that's the company that brought Jurassic Park's dinos back to life. CRACKED.COM — Source

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