30 Pop-Culture Secrets We Almost Missed
![30 Pop-Culture Secrets We Almost Missed](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/6/6/830666_320x180.jpg)
Around here, we pride ourselves on leaving no pop-culture stone unturned. If there’s a secret, or an Easter egg, or especially an homage in a piece of pop culture, or about a piece of pop culture, we’re all over it. Normally, that is.
This time, we almost blew it. Not just once, either, but 30 times. We came dangerously close to missing what happens when you tip the bathroom attendant 500 times in Grand Theft Auto, the shout out to Caitlyn Kiramman in the opening scene of Arcane, and Meghan Markle’s homage to Princess Diana in her children’s book. Do you know how embarrassing that would have been?
Look, we ultimately caught it, just in the nick of time. But can you imagine what dunces we would have been if we’d missed the Moana cameo in Raya and the Last Dragon? Or the secret phone number in the poster for Murder on the Orient Express? Or, god forbid, the Nightmare on Elm Street homage in Slither? One shudders to think…
![GRAND THEFT AUTO ONLINE CRACKED.COM If you tip the bathroom attendant 500 times, you'll receive the Epsilon robes from the cult in GTA: San Andreas.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/9/7/830697.jpg)
![ARCANE In the opening minutes of episode one, a tray of cupcakes can be seen on one of the balconies during the parkour scene. It obviously belongs to Caitlyn Kieramman, also referred to as Cupcake. THEORMER CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/9/6/830696.jpg)
![MEGHAN MARKLE HAS AN HOMAGE TO PRINCESS DIANA IN HER CHILDREN'S BOOK. The the the buschibe BENCH Mezhan, The Duchessed Sours . L The DATE - - in LOVE Pickets ٤ - The The Duchess of Sussex said they added Diana's favorite flowers, forget-me-nots, to the illustrations. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/9/5/830695.jpg)
![RAYA AND THE LAST DRAGON Hei Не, the chicken from Moana, has a cameo at the marketplace in the film. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/9/4/830694.jpg)
![THE EASTER EGG IN THE POSTER FOR MURDER on THe ORIENT EXPRESS EVERYON 856 997 CASH (2017) SPECT 11 A poster featuring Josh Gad's MacQueen hides a phone number that provides callers with a message containing a secret password to unlock a digital version of MacQueen's OR calling card on the movie's website. EXPRESS CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/9/2/830692.jpg)
![SLITHER has an homage to A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET The bathtub scene is an uncanny callback. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/9/3/830693.jpg)
![THe CUPID HIDING IN THe VeRmeeR PAINTING Thanks to X-rays, historians have known about the hidden Cupid in Johannes Vermeer's Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window since 1979. It has finally been restored, and the process of removing the paint revealed that someone actually covered the image of the baby after Vermeer's death. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/9/1/830691.jpg)
![TRICK 'R TREAT The school bus story is a homage to It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown and would originally have featured a cemetery with overgrown pumpkins. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/9/0/830690.jpg)
![145 HARD WARE Sale 1 8*NAILS OPEN 25:00 FUCO SALE SOUL There's a shout out to Nine Inch Nails in the store window. Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross were two of the composers for the movie. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/8/9/830689.jpg)
![The Stranger Things 4 trailer and all the Freddy Krueger references CRACKED.COM Not only is Robert Englund starring in the fourth season of the show, but his character wears a fedora much like Freddy, and during a dinner scene with his family, Dream A Little Dream Of Me is playing.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/8/6/830686.jpg)
![MOTHER! movie poster There's a promotional poster on the film's Instagram that, if you play it through sound editing software, will produce an audio spectrogram of Javier Bardem's face. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/8/8/830688.jpg)
![NOT 2018 TOSHIBA HAPPY NEW YEAS TOSHIBA «ТОК HAPPY NEW YEAR A major building in Times Square is empty. It's the building where they drop the New Year's Ball - One Times Square. There's one tenant: a Walgreens on the ground floor. The building has been used as a gigantic, vacant advertising stand since 1992. It makes $23 million a year. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/8/7/830687.jpg)
![ELDEN RING HAS A DEMON'S SOUL EASTER EGG The theme music playing over the title screen with the start menu uses the same melody and beats from Demon's Soul. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/8/5/830685.jpg)
![THE CANDYMAN HOMAGE IN THE SANTA CLAUSE 3: THE ESCAPE CLAUSE CRACKED.COM Or you can argue that both films are referencing Hellmouth, the European imagery believed to have originated in Anglo-Saxon art.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/8/4/830684.jpg)
![STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS After rescuing BB-8 from captivity, Rey tells the droid to stay off Kelvin Ridge on Jakku. J.J. Abrams references Harry Kelvin, his grandfather, in most all his movies. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/8/3/830683.jpg)
![FOR THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF FRIENDS, GOOGLE ADDED A BUNCH OF EASTER EGGS TO THE SHOW'S SEARCH RESULTS. x thois / More 12 News o Shipping Images Maps to PIVOT! About # 730 000 results in seconds happe friends fandom com with Nose Caster I Ross Geller Friends Central Fandom Rose Gatter Pr o was DOW d the PAR gharacters in Friends (1994-2004) the - portrayed by David Schwenner He's Dest krown the No creaty personally and First appearance The Phot Nicknames By Humberf Dr Moreay + Ross R Date of birth October 18 1967 Docupation Paleirologie College Profess More Images Den Charte](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/8/1/830681.jpg)
![THE OPENING TITLE OF FRINGE HIDES A MESSAGE OBSERVERS ARE HERE There's a flash of light after the words dark matter during the title sequence. If you slow the frames down, there's a single frame with the words observers are here written on the screen. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/8/2/830682.jpg)
![DR. No HOMAGES IN No Time TO Die The opening title sequence starts off with the same colored circle design of the first James Bond movie, and Safin's villain lair on a remote island is another callback to the very first bigscreen Bond villain. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/7/9/830679.jpg)
![The IMAX logos dotted and scripted in the poster for AvenGeRs.* INFINITY WAR The people at IMAX left some Easter eggs for fans to uncover. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/8/0/830680.jpg)
![Tiffany Valentine's secret appearance in the first episode of CHUCKY During the yard sale scene there's a woman in a red coat with a scarf covering her head. That's Valentine, and it could possibly explain how Chucky made his way back to his hometown. GRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/7/8/830678.jpg)
![THE INVISIBLE MAN *ة + I In one scene James is wearing a shirt that says Prestige Records 1949. It's a nod to the year of the Japanese film The Invisible Man Appears that was based on H.G. Wells' novel. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/7/7/830677.jpg)
![All the inspiration behind FRee GUY GAMES: Anno, Fortnite-the design of the world Grand Theft Auto-violence/texture Minecraft, Shadow of the Colossus- lonely quality Red Dead Redemption-self-dictated moral codes Movies: Blade Runner, Brazil, The Truman Show, Back to the Future GRACKED GOM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/7/2/830672.jpg)
![Star Trek: Lower Decks RITOS DISCO ISCO The show not only references the Disco shirts from Star Trek: Discovery by having their own Ritos shirts, but this seems to suggest that every ship has their own casual crew shirts now. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/7/5/830675.jpg)
![The BRIDGERTON Easter egg everyone missed The actress who is revealed to be Lady Whistledown said she chose a specific prop for her very first scene in the first episode: A feather that looks like a quill, that she holds like a pen. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/6/8/830668.jpg)
![The Supreme Court also has a basketball court. Storage space above the courtroom was turned into a gym with a basketball court in the 1940s. John Roberts used to play basketball with William Rehnquist there, and Sandra Day O'Connor organized yoga classes in the gym every day. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/7/4/830674.jpg)
![DEXTER: NEW BLOOD In the first episode it's revealed that Dexter now goes by the name of Jim Lindsay - the name of the author who wrote the novel Darkly Dreaming Dexter. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/7/0/830670.jpg)
![ARCANE CRACKED.COM One of the first posters for the series hides the name Jinx in Powder's hair. A Riot team member confirmed that it was done deliberately and that artist Victor Maury came up with the idea.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/6/9/830669.jpg)
![SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDERVERSE Spotted in the trailer: Miles has the same wooden moose as Katie in The Mitchells VS. the Machine. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/7/1/830671.jpg)
![THE FIRST EPISODE OF WATCHMEN... HBO WATCHMEN DC has a reference to the KIN KORE MIN - iconic bloodstained smiley face on the cover of the comic issue. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/7/6/830676.jpg)
![THE ORIGINAL BOND SONG EASTER EGG IN BILLIE EILISH'S BOND SONG NO TIME TO 007 DIE Eilish revealed that her Bond title song has a subtle piece of the classic Bond opening sting hidden in its second verse. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/7/3/830673.jpg)