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33 Trivia Tidbits About Hidden Jokes and References in Pop Culture

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33 Trivia Tidbits About Hidden Jokes and References in Pop Culture

May 31, 2024

Well, look at you, you sly little creatives. You peppered in some fun hidden nuggets that took us a while to catch, but we cracked your codes, and unmasked your furtive jokes. We feel like the gang on Scooby-Doo, and can now see why they do so much unmasking. It’s just so much fun!

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Iron Man has a Jeff Bridges in-joke. Vessel Voyage MSC LEBOWSKI V175-8 Origin Port Departure Date 05/19/07 LONG BEACH Port of Discharge Arrival Date 06/14/07 KARACHI Contents Description 440 lbs (200 kg) each. K 47 machine guns. (brown) limited to: When Pepper Potts hacks Obadiah Stane (Jeff Bridges)'s computer and digs through his files, she finds a cargo manifest showing he smuggled weapons on a ship called the MSC Lebowski. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Batman Forever has a jab at Tim Burton. Arkham Asylum has a Dr. Burton who shows up now and again, giving Two-Face and Riddler the diagnosis of crazy. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Spider-Man 2

In Spider-Man 2, when Peter Parker jumps off a building, he tells himself he just needs a strong focus to land safely. focus Luckily, he lands on a Ford Focus, which breaks his fall. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The name of Syndrome's island in The Incredibles is a joke. It's Nomanisan, which sounds like a typical exotic island name until you take it apart to get No man is an island. That's a quote from 17th-century poet John Donne, who meant that humans do best when they work together -- which is what the Parrs find out by the end of the movie. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Terminator 2

Terminator 2's hallway shootout is actually a nod to Guns'n'Roses. The band let the filmmakers use You Could Be Mine as the theme song, so, as a tongue-in-cheek way of saying thanks, they put in a scene where Arnie pulls a gun out of a box of roses. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Rugrats

A Rugrats Chanukah snuck in an adult joke for anyone who knows Hebrew. S CUT RATE MONTE The sign on this storefront says mohel. A mohel is a Jewish circumcision specialist. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Liz Lemon's favorite cheese snacks in 30 Rock have the saddest flavor in the world. DIRI DISHING WEEK SABOR DL SOLEDKOJE gA EMMA CRUJENTE Their name is Sabor de Soledad, or in Spanish, Taste of Loneliness. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM For restaurant names, Frasier used absurd French nonsense. сем - KO For example, there's Le Cigare Volant, or The Flying Cigar... ...Couer ... du Singe, or Heart of the Monkey... ... and Quelque Chose, or Something. — Source

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The alien UI in Guardians of the Galaxy recognizes a legendary Earth creator. PRICE CENTRALO Rit EN DE 3733 tac30 EXPRESIONE SH73C You FRET MADE When Rocket Raccoon zooms in on him, the word Excelsior! appears in the Skrull language next to Stan Lee. And, amazingly, it took four years for anyone to notice this detail. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM The background graffiti in Homeland's fifth season is a metaphorical middle finger. #بلاك #blacklivesmatter = لليغل Homeland is II racist عنصرى الوطن A group of Arab street artists hired to decorate a refugee camp set with Arabic graffiti used the gig as an opportunity to make a point about their own and others' unhappiness with the show. They graffitied nothing but accusations against Homeland. The biggest joke is that nobody checked what their graffiti said before shooting. — Source

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Jurassic Park

Apparently, Godzilla ravaged the world of Jurassic Park. In The Lost World: Jurassic Park, there's a shot of terrified Japanese businessmen running from the rampaging T-Rex, shouting in Japanese, We left Tokyo to get away from this! CRACKED.COM — Source

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Parks and Rec

Jeremy Jamm's wall decor reflects his level of appreciation of Chinese culture. In Parks and Rec, Jeremy Jamm's Chinese poster says North Korea in Japanese. Pretty appropriate for someone who says, I love Chinese crap. Lucy Liu, 'Gangnam Style,' sushi, etcetera etcetera. CRACKED.COM

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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 — Source

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Adult jokes in children's movies The Flintstones TOO many heads Fred jokes to Barney that if he wants to look taller, what he needs is another head. Barney's answer: What do I need three of them for? CRACKED.COM — Source

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Cars

Adult jokes in children's movies BUSTER CEXEN REAR END FORMULA TAK ~ 95 cars car boobs Two female Mazda cars run up to Lightning, tell him they are his greatest fans, and then show him their pop-up headlights. Yup, they're literally flashing him. 95 95 95 95 CRACKED.COM

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Shrek

Adult jokes in children's movies shrek Farquaad's date with himself Farquaad is shirtless under his bedsheets, asking a visibly disgusted mirror to show him women. We don't need anyone to draw us a picture here. CRACKED.COM

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Adult jokes in children's movies DE-WORMING has never been this easy A de Port Behind You adidas COULD IT RE TINE TE BET YOURSELF, FIXED? Zootopia Get yourself fixed How are you going to pay your mortgage if you have a thousand kids? By getting fixed! Nip, tuck, Nick! CRACKED.COM — Source

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Popper's Penguins

Mr. Popper's Penguins credits make us worry for Jim Carrey. NO PENGUINS WERE HARMED IN THE MAKING OF THIS FILM. JIM CARREY, ON THE OTHER HAND, WAS BITTEN MERCILESSLY. BUT НЕ HAD IT COMING. AMERICAN HUMANE AMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION MONITORED THE ANIMAL ACTION. I guess Mr. Popper's penguins had their revenge. CRACKED.COM

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American Werewolf in London

American Werewolf in London didn't want any supernatural lawsuits. All characters and events in this film are fictitious. Any similarity to actual events or persons, living, dead, or undead, is purely coincidental. After insulting the Prince of Wales in the film, they give a shout-out to him and Princess Di in the credits. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The animated show Histeria! always included a quick gag. MAIN TITLES LYRICS MAIN TITLE DIRECTION TOM RUEGGER BOB DOUCETTE HISTERIA WOULD LIKE TO EXPRESS ITS BELIEF THAT WAR IS BAD. Others included Lady Godiva's Wardrobe Provided by No One and Histeria! Is Drawn Before a Live Audience. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Life of Brian includes a strange recommendation. If you have enjoyed this film, why not go and see La Notte? La Notte is a 1961 acclaimed Italian drama, a.k.a. the complete opposite of Monty Python sensibilities. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Beatles' Help! had an unusual dedication. THIS fILM IS RESPECTfULLY dEdICATED TO THE MEMORY of MR. ELIAS HOWE, WHO IN 1846. INVENTED THE SEWING MACHINE Were the filmmakers truly inspired, think it was funny, or (the most likely answer) were they high? CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Simpsons Movie

The Simpsons Movie claims to be filmed on location in Springfield. JULIE ANSELL GREGG BERGER MAURICE LAMARCHE RICK POLIZZI FILMED ON LOCATION IN SPRINGFIELD, Kodak Prints by DELUXE® DE DOLBY dts Film Stock IN SELECTED THEATRES Approved A . follows the city's name, as a nod to the undeterminded state of the city. CRACKED.COM — Source

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House

Angus, Sherlock's phrenology bust in Elementary, is a nod to other brilliant investigators. In House, House had a phrenology bust, which one of the writers kept after the show ended. Later, the writer created Angus on Elementary as a nod to House. Both are also nods to Arthur Conan Doyle's Holmes, a noted phrenologist. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Zootopia continues a joke started by Frozen. In Frozen, Alan Tudyk voiced bad guy the Duke of Weselton (who demanded people stop calling him the Duke of Weasel Town). In Zootopia, Tudyk is again a bad guy, called Duke Weaselton. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Apocalypse Now

Two Apocalypse Now characters are named after important people in Francis Ford Coppola's life. General Corman Colonel Lucas ARMY George Lucas and Coppola have been friends since before they got famous, and Roger Corman was Coppola's mentor, who gave him his start in the movie business. CRACKED.COM — Source

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TMNT

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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Arrested Development

Charlize Theron's Arrested Development character used to look exactly like Theron in Monster. one year earlier... To show Rita (Theron) before her plastic surgery, the show used a shot of Theron from Monster. CRACKED.COM

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Scrubs

In Scrubs, J.D.'s childhood living room is a carbon copy of the 8 Simple Rules living room. It was shown in a flashback in which John Ritter played J.D.'s dad; Ritter also played the dad in 8 Simple Rules. CRACKED.COM

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STARGATE SG.1 Lt. Colonel Samantha Carter: The Stargate program just doesn't get the support it used to from the people in charge. Jacek: Why not? Eureka was the show slated to replace Dr. Bill Lee: Eureka! Stargate SG-1 in SyFy's lineup. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Hercules

Lion King's Scar shows up in a grisly way in Hercules. When Hercules poses for a vase painting, he's wearing the lion skin he's known for in classical art - and the skin belonged to Scar. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Jungle Book

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 — Source

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