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36 Top Secret Jokes That Only the Biggest Pop-Culture Dweebs Will Understand

October 11, 2024

You know that look on a comedy nerd’s face when they hold the key to a lesser-known reference? It’s this slimy, self-satisfying grin that proves they think they’re better than the rest of us. How would you like to throw that look right back in their faces?

These hidden jokes and references are sure to help level the playing field, but please don’t let them go to your head. We wouldn’t want you switching over to the dark side.

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CRACKED.COM KiNG LEER! Sening Spink Forcible In Coraline, this poster is on Spink and Forcible's wall. Yes, that's a burlesque version of a Shakespeare play. — Source

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CRACKED.COM OSMOSiS JONES takes place inside a human body, but kids might have trouble getting this joke. OUR FOUNDER There is a scene with a monument that reads Our Founder with the statue of an sperm cell on top. — Source

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In Toy Story, Woody calls Buzz's laser a blinking little bulb. Mr. Potato Head then explains that Woody just has laser envy. CRACKED.COM — Source

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EASTER EGGSTRA REFERENCES & HIDDEN MEANINGS CRACKED.COM SCHITT'S CREEK Beetlejuice When Johnny and Moira visit the creek for the very first time in the final season, Moira's donning an umbrella that feels an awful lot like a Beetlejuice throwback, one of O'Hara's iconic movies. — Source

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Adult jokes in children's movies BUSHER CON TAK REAR END FORMULA ~ 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 — Source

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Adult jokes in children's movies DE-WORMING has never been this easy U 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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BOYZ ZZ HOOD KINGS WE WANT EAZY An amusing scene shows a crackhead attempting to steal someone's gold chain only to be caught and beaten up. The guy is wearing a t-shirt that refers to Eazy-E, a rapper who was feuding with the film's star Ice Cube. CRACKED.COM It was a sneaky jab at Eazy-E. — Source

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Adult Jokes in Children's Entertainment The Flintstones Barney's New Head While looking for a costume, Fred makes a joke about Barney getting a costume with a second head. Barney jokes back, Why do I need three of 'em? CRACKED.COM — Source

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Gravity Falls

EASTER EGGSTRA JOKES AND MEANINGS HIDDEN JOKES, Gravity HIDDEN JOKES FALLS EVERYWHERE HACK Thomas Jefferson was actually just on kids in an overcoat standing on each other's shoulders The current and foreser President of the United States is actially Santa (Laus.Und the reign of Mr. Claus, America is not a democracy. but a jollvocracy. The statues in Mount Rushmore are actually excentic presidential-faced robots that will be called into action when America needs them the most. An enormous, eul timederouring baby from another dimension is frozen in an Autarctic glacier. Fortux nately mel. should be fux Wnt- ing jokes for cartoons IS

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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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Luxo Jr.

Pixar Easter Eggs Luxo Ball The Luxo ball is an Easter egg homaging one of Pixar's very first short films, Luxo Jr. The rubber ball appears in almost every Pixar movie. Up CRACKED.COM — Source

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Ant-Man

EASTER EGGSTRA MEANINGS AND REFERENCES ANT-MAN THE TRAILER EASTER EGG Director Peyton Reed revealed that the guitar riff in the trailer for Ant-Man and the Wasp comes from a 1982 song by Adam and the Ants called Ants Invasion. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Luxo Ball

Pixar Easter Eggs Luxo Ball The Luxo ball is an Easter egg homaging one of Pixar's very first short films, Luxo Jr. The rubber ball appears in almost every Pixar movie. Up CRACKED.COM — Source: Pixar Wiki

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Paddington 2

The Paddington 2 scene where Paddington wears a striped prison outfit is a Charlie Chaplin reference. 23 Chaplin is one of the inspirations for Paddington, so they wanted to put in a scene like that. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Nedry's wardrobe in Jurassic Park is taken from Goonies. His Hawaiian shirt is a lot like Chunk's, his windbreaker is identical to Mouth's, and in the scene where the dilophosaur kills him, he's dressed just like Mikey. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Incredibles copied a whole scene from Die Hard With a Vengeance. In the Die Hard movie, a cop points a gun at Samuel L. Jackson (mistakenly thinking he's a bad guy), but Jackson says he has to answer a phone, which he does - - then a bomb blast incapacitates the cop. The exact same things happen in The Incredibles scene when a cop points a gun at Frozone (voiced by Jackson), except Frozone gets a drink instead, and the bomb blast is a freeze ray. CRACKED.COM — Source

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In The Last Jedi, when Poe asks Finn if he found the hacker and Finn says he found a hacker, that's a nod to Monty Python and the Holy Grail. In that movie, when Prince Herbert announces that Lancelot got his note, Lancelot says he got a note. CRACKED.COM — Source

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When Daenerys' army is at the gates of Meereen in Game of Thrones, the Champion of Meereen hurls Monty Python insults. His monologue is the French guy's rant (Go and boil your bottoms, sons of a silly person, and so on) from Monty Python and the Holy Grail, translated into Low Valyrian. CRACKED.COM — Source

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In The Mask, this is what the scamming mechanics' storefront looks like before The Mask shows up. AUTO FINISHING DRIPLEYS 12 SHOCK OFF WISHING GRIP And this is what it looks like once he's done with them. CRACKED COM AENC — Source

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During the scene in SNAKES ON A PLANE where the flight attendant kills a snake in the microwave... 2: 10 Direct Access SNAKE T LOW DINNER WARM ...the microwave literally has a Snake option right above the Dinner option. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Rod and Todd Flanders

6 2 66 THe SIMPSONS In the episode Bart Star - CRACKED.COM the numbers on the religious Rod and Todd's football jerseys are '66' and '6.' — Source

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Ever the eccentric fashionista, Delia Deetz in Beetlejuice is seen sporting this sweater Charles was wearing earlier. As pants. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Harry Potter Albus Dumbledore was in Gryffindor House, and the statue guarding the secret entrance to his office is a griffin. Griffin. Door. Get it? CRACKED.COM — Source

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MO52584 ESC 7 - O - G 2 3 TAB O E O ENTER W R P T L с CAPS D G H J K f 1Лл B SHI HIFT z x C < P N M R.L LT Old Man McGucket's laptop in Gravity Falls has a key for the symbol of The Artist Formerly Known As Prince. CRACKED.COM — Source

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UNITED NATIONS 123 In South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, the flag display outside the United Nations includes the Jolly Roger and an LGBT Pride flag. CRACKED.COM — Source

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In Finding Nemo, Deb thinks her reflection in the fish tank's glass is her sister Flo, who seems to be a product of Deb's imagination. DODDIES Siephell ROOI Deb (& Flo) ... Vicki Lewis S. Yet Vicki Lewis is credited as voicing Deb (& Flo). CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM ANDFOR HOT FUZZ POLICE Danny throws a DVD into a supermarket basket. For a brief second, we see a cut-price DVD of the director's previous film, Shaun of the Dead, now renamed Zombies Party-which was the release title in certain countries. IN INSTANT CURT CLASSIC FBIS IS THE IBRID FOR ARS SHAUN OF THE £4.99 ZOMBIES DE I SARTY - - eve — Source

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The Office

GRACKED.COM MIZUNEL SCOTT tother - Quality Certificate Of Authenticity This certifies that MICHAEL Scott is the proud owner of a Quality Seyko timepiece CERTIFICATE NUMBER 00842MBA the office In his office, Michael Scott has a framed certificate of authenticity for his watch. Note that it's for a Quality Seyko, not for a Seiko watch. Не was tricked into buying a knock-off and lets the world know. — Source

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CRACKED COM SPIDER-MAN INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE While Miles Morales is visiting his uncle Aaron in his apartment, the TV is on. 11 And the TV is showing an episode of Community, which features Donald Glover in Spider-Man pyjamas. — Source

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The Lost World

Easter Eggs for Polyglots The Lord World: Jurassic Park I left Japan to get away from this! The screams of a Japanese man running from the rampaging T-rex reference another city- destroying dinosaur, who is really big in Japan. — Source: Warped Factor

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Cake

CRACKED'COM CAKE is not a reference to dessert. The name is actually supposed to be a verb, as in something that congeals and sticks with you.

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Star Trek

Easter Eggs for Polyglots star Trek: The Next Generation star Trek Into Anime. In one episode, Will Riker fights his estranged father in an arena full of Japanese characters that reference Urusei Yatsura. What's that? Oh, just an alien-tag anime featuring panty grabbing. — More: 5 Movie Jokes You Missed If You Only Speak English

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THE EMPEROR'S EIW GGROOVE Pretty sly reference to pitching a tent for a kid's movie.

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The opening credits for Scott Pilgrim us. The World reference something about every main character. For example: sso AUBREY PLAZA Aubrey Plaza's chara

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Ocean’s 13

At the end of Ocean's 13, Brad Pitt's character tells George Clooney's to try keeping the weight off in between reference to Clooney putting on weig

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