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36 Secret Easter Eggs Hidden in Media and Real Life

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36 Secret Easter Eggs Hidden in Media and Real Life

May 15, 2024

Sorry to interrupt your Easter egg hunt, but we just wanted to remind you that if you’re only looking for them in TV, movies and video games, you’re missing half of the hunting grounds! If you’re able to peel yourself away from a screen (we know it’s tough), you can find some pretty interesting ones hidden in real life, too.

Sorry… IRL. However you want to say it, keep your eyes peeled, kiddo!

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Atari

ADVENTURE The first Easter egg was created by a disgruntled + Atari employee. ADVENTURE معر VIDEO COMPUTER SYSTEM GAME PROGRAM 3 GAMES VIDEO THE SKILL SEVELS ONE PLATES created Warren Robinett, the programmer on Adventure, knew he wouldn't get credit for his work. So he created a secret room with his name written on the floor. By the time it was discovered, the games had hit the shelves. Atari decided to tell people it was a hidden feature, and coined the term Easter egg. CRACKED.COM — Source

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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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A Fact You Can Trust!

Easter Eggs of Oscar-winning movies Fight Club 2000 Sound Editing au (nominated) COFFEE There's a Starbucks cup in nearly every scene. 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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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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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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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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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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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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Many cathedrals have a cruciform plan; that is, if CRACKED.COM you see them from above (as God would), they look like a cross. Washington National Chartres Cathedral, Cathedral, USA France Peterborough Amiens Cathedral, Cathedral, UK France — 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. Q MOTION PICTURE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA AFFILIATED WITH A.F.L.C.L.O. - 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 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 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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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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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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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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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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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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Bumblebee

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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Boogie Nights

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

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