31 Trivia Tidbits About Hidden Jokes and References in Pop Culture

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31 Trivia Tidbits About Hidden Jokes and References in Pop Culture

Whether some of these were premeditated or spur-of-the-moment, creative types love to throw in little nods to their favorite works. It makes you think, “Aw, they’re just fans like the rest of us.” It’s cute. And on the not-so-cute (but still hilarious) side of things, we love it when they throw in a subtly spicy joke or a full-blown jab. 

Whatever the case, we’d like to thank the somehow nerdier folks than us who uncovered and shared these hidden jokes and references.

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COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX HAS A SUBTLE JOKE ABOUT BALLS. R BALLS JUDG 00L In the opening, Harry is sitting on a swing and reading a newspaper - which has the headline Balls Judged 'Too Big.

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COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM THE SUPERMARKET'S NAMED IN SHAUN OF THE DEAD WASN'T A RANDOM CHOICE. It's called Landis - an homage to John Landis, who directed the comedy-horror classic An American Werewolf in London.

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COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM THE TAGLINE OF THE PIZZA CHAIN IN HOME ALONE HAS A HISTORICAL JOKE. Little Nero's Pizza NO FIDDLIN' AROUND It's called Little Nero's Pizza (a play on Little Caesar's, obviously), with the tagline No Fiddlin' Around - a reference to the legend that Emperor Nero fiddled while Rome burned around him.

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UNITED NATIONS In South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, the flag display outside the United Nations includes the Jolly Roger and an LGBT Pride flag. CRACKED.COM

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31 Trivia Tidbits About Hidden Jokes and References in Pop Culture

Gravity Falls' Latin gibberish contains scathing pop culture criticism. The fake Latin incantation Dipper uses to enter Stan's mind includes the phrase Inceptus Nolanus overratus, or, Nolan's Inception is overrated. CRACKED.COM

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2014's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles brings the comic's creators into the Turtles universe. FASTMAN & LARL BY The Art of Ninjutsu handbook that Splinter finds and that enables him to become the turtles' martial arts trainer is written by Eastman & Laird, creators of TMNT. So, appropriately, Eastman & Laird made the Ninja Turtles in-universe, too. CRACKED.COM

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2016's The Jungle Book took something from Saturday Night Live into the jungle. While Louie (played by Christopher Walken) sleeps, Mowgli goes through his things and finds a cowbell, which wakes him up. The whole thing is a nod to Walken's More cowbell SNL skit. CRACKED.COM

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THERE'S AN ELFJOKE IN EUROVISION SONG CONTEST: THE STORY OF FIRE SAGA. Will Ferrell said that his character Lars's hate for elves was literally meant to be a joking reference to his character, Buddy the Elf. Не was pretty surprised that no one got the subtext. CRACKED.COM

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Bob Odenkirk's cameo in Halloween Kills 111 BREAKING NEWS COMMUNITY IN SHOCK OVER MULTIPLE MURDERS ACES 11 EVENING SENT - CRACKED.COM His high school photo was used to represent Bob who got killed in the first movie. The director didn't have the rights to use an image of the original actor, John Michael Graham, so they had to find someone who resembled the actor, and Odenkirk's mug was it.

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THE TRAILER FOR MARVEL'S WOLVERINE GAME HAS A HULK COMIC EASTER EGG. COKA Made ALE 585 SINCE - BLK 181 A license plate with HLK 181 can be spotted behind the bar. It's a reference to the 1974 Marvel issue, Incredible Hulk #181-And Now... The Wolverine! CRACKED.COM

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SQUID GAME In Netflix's new Korean series, all the games the competitors need to play to survive and win the cash prize are secretly illustrated on the back walls. 218 CRACKED.COM

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