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33 Movie and TV Easter Eggs Only Spotted By the Most Intrepid Nerds

Rounding up more eggs than Old MacDonald!

33 Movie and TV Easter Eggs Only Spotted By the Most Intrepid Nerds

February 12, 2024

When Easter is on the way, you’ll need a nerd. They’ll help you track down every egg in the yard, but after everyone reads this list, a nerd’s finely-tuned egg-racking abilities will be in high demand. You better call up every nerd you know and start checking their availability.

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Easter Eggs Batman Begins Bruce Wayne calls his party guests two- faced friends - and ends up having a literal two-faced friend in the sequel. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Easter Eggs Dune Each character and group has their own sound, which struggle and fight each other as they play. Each sound is its own Easter egg, as they merge and meld together. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Easter Eggs Evil Dead Sam Raimi puts his Oldsmobile in every film he makes. Spider-Man CRACKED.COM — Source

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Easter Eggs Arrested Development According to many background hints, it turns out Tobias is a light-skinned black man, making his middle name Onyango and dashiki wearing make a touch more sense. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Easter Eggs YOUTH OF Sound of Metal Ruben's emotional journey is charted by the band shirts he wears. RUDIMENTARY PENI CRACKED.COM — Source

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Easter Eggs Tropic Thunder I don't drop character till I done a DVD commentary. Не doesn't. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Easter Eggs NIXON Zodiac/True Detective In both, yellow stands for corruption and decay. In True Detective, it also stands for the villainous serial killer, the King in Yellow. CRACKED COM — Source

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DOCTOR SLEEP Director Mike Flanagan paid homage to Stephen King's other big film adaptation, The Green Mile, by modeling the long corridors in the hospice to the death-row section. CRACKED.COM — Source

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DEADPOOL 2 joked about Wolverine's death in LOGAN. Wolverine's send-off in Logan is accompanied by a piece of music - the same music that plays when Deadpool takes a bullet to save the future from Russell. 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 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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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 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 IN '80S MOVIES - The Breakfast Club CARL THE JANITOR WENT TO THE MOVIE'S HIGH SCHOOL. At the beginning of the movie, viewers can see pictures of the school's past Man of the Year award winners. One of these pictures is of a young John Kapelos, the actor who plays Carl. KEV TOREX CRACKED COM CARL REED JOEL PRIMOGA des - — Source

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EASTER EGGS IN '80S MOVIES JCPenne Back to the Future DE ERONS INTERPASES - - TWIN PINES MALL 16AM A PINE IS KNOCKED DOWN As Marty travels back to 1955, he crashes into one of Farmer Peabody's pine trees. When he returns to 1985, the accident has changed the mall's name. JCPenr DEL BROWN ENTERPASES - - - LONE PINE MALL 133RM CRACKED.COM — Source

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EASTER EGGS IN '80S MOVIES Beetlejuice JACK SKELLINGTON IS HERE. Tim Burton came up with Jack way back in 1982, so it's no big surprise that he appears at the top of Beetlejuice's carnival hat. CRACKED.COM — Source

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EASTER EGGS IN '80S MOVIES The Breakfast Club ILLINOIS EMC 2 JOHN HUGHES LEFT EASTER EGGS ON LICENSE PLATES. Nerd Brian's plate is EMC 2 because E=MC². And all the individual plate numbers on Jake Ryan's car add up to 16. 21850 KORNAK 16 Candles CRACKED.COM — Source

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EASTER EGGS IN '80S MOVIES RoboCop MURPHY REALLY CARES ABOUT COPYRIGHT LAW. If you stick around to the very end of the movie's credits, you'll see an oddly threatening Easter egg. Instead of the typical copyright warning, viewers will be prosecuted by enforcement droids. o MOTION PICTURE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA AFFILIATED WITH A.F.L.C.L.O. C 1987 ORION PICTURES CORPORATION. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED THE STORY, ALL NAMES, CHARACTERS AND INCIDENTS PORTRAYED IN THIS PRODUCTION ARE FICTITIOUS NO IDENTIFICATION WITH OR SIMILARITY TO ACTUAL PERSONS. LIVING OR DEAD, OR TO ACTUAL EVENTS IS INTENDED OR SHOULD BE INFERRED THIS MOTION PICTURE IS PROTECTED — Source

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EASTER EGGS IN '80S MOVIES Coming to America АКЕЕМ GIVES MONEY TO THE DUKE BROTHERS. The two homeless old men who benefit from the prince's charity turn out to be Randolph and Mortimer Duke, the villainous rich stock brokers that became penniless. Trading Places CRACKED.COM — Source

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EASTER EGGS IN '80S MOVIES The Goonies SLOTH WAS AN ACTUAL OAKLAND RAIDER. Sloth wearing an Raiders t-shirt was a cheeky reference to the fact that Sloth's actor, John Matuszak, was a defensive end for the team from 1976 to 1982. CRACKED.COM — Source

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EASTER EGGS IN '80S MOVIES Tron PAC-MAN IS JUST HANGING THERE. In a close-up on a screen filled with circuits, we can see the dot-munching Pac-Man munch on some dots, doing his thing. 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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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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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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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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