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40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Would’ve Never Seen the Light of Day If Not for Intrepid Easter-Egg Hunters

Our Easter egg basket runneth over

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Would’ve Never Seen the Light of Day If Not for Intrepid Easter-Egg Hunters

November 13, 2024

You would’ve loved us as older siblings!

Every Easter morning, we’d not only help our little sibs find their eggs, but we’d also let a few of ours spill into their baskets, too. What can we say? We’re great people. And those good deeds didn’t go overlooked, because sharing Easter eggs is exactly how we landed this sweet job. All we did was show up at reception, start screaming about sharing Easter eggs and some gangly old man hired us on the spot. No resume or interview required!

And would you look at that? Here’s a full basket for you right now…

40

The Last of Us

THE LAST OF US Easter egg in the prologue that everybody missed. It took seven years for people to discover that, after completing a series of specific and somewhat convoluted actions, a cordyceps-infected ant will appear on Joel's TV screen. GRACKED.COM — Source

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Adventure Time

Adventure Time Every episode has a small snail in it. Hidden in all the episodes of the show is a snail that is waving to the audience, usually as a running gag but sometimes hidden on an Easter-egg level. CRACKED.COM — Source

38

Abre Los Ojos

VIRTUAL REALITY MOVIES ABRE LOS OJOS 1997 THE CLUB SCENE HAS A MUSICAL EASTER EGG. The song that plays is Massive Attack's Risingson, which features the repeated lyrics dream on, echoing the movie's theme of fantasy blurring with reality. CRACKED.COM — Source: IMDb, Scene on YouTube

37

Thor

THOR BTS FACTS AND EASTER EGGS LOKI DID TURN THOR INTO A FROG. In Thor: Ragnarok, Thor casually recalls the time when Loki turned him into a frog-which actually happened in the pages of Thor's comics. Frog Thor briefly appears as an Easter Egg in Loki. T365 LOKI CRACKED.COM — Source: Inverse, Marvel, The Direct

36

Call of Duty

CALL OF DUTY: BLACK OPS COLD WAR There's an Easter egg on John McClane's MP5 SMG. There's text on there that reads, Now I have a machine gun, which is a reference to Die Hard's elevator scene. HAVE MACHINECUN CRACKED.COM — Source

35

No Time to Die

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 — Digital Spy

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Bridgerton

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 — Source

33

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

32

In the Heights

The HAMIL TON Easter egg in In THe HeIGHTS The song You'll Be Back plays over the phone while Kevin Rosario is put on hold by the Stanford admissions office. CRACKED.COM — Source

31

Us

Us There is an easter egg of Easter in the film. Peele has said that Us is an Easter horror movie. The animals in my stories represent this battle between science and religion for me.... One of the motifs of this movie is the rabbits. They symbolize a lot of different things. The main connection to me was Easter. This story is a dark Easter of sorts. Red is the messiah who's rising from the hole that she was left for dead. CRACKED.COM — Source: 14 Easter Eggs And Hidden Meanings In Jordan Peele’s ‘Us’

30

Guardians of the Galaxy

James Gunn put a throwback to his high school days in Guardians of the Galaxy 2. In what he called the most obscure Easter egg of all time, Ego's Fo — Source: FilmSchoolRejects

29

Wolverine

THE TRAILER FOR MARVEL'S WOLVERINE GAME HAS A HULK COMIC EASTER EGG. HLK 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 — Source: GamesRadar

28

Schitt’s Creek

EASTER EGGSTRA REFERENCES & HIDDEN MEANINGS CRACKED.COM SCHITT'S CREEK The last scene. Emily Hampshire, who plays Stevie, said that the final scene is an Easter egg, in that it really was the last scene all of them shot together, making those goodbyes very real. — Source: 16 Easter Eggs And Hidden Meanings In 'Schitt's Creek'

27

The Fly

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Would’ve Never Seen the Light of Day If Not for Intrepid Easter-Egg Hunters — Source: Film School Rejects

26

Princess Bride

There's a Spinal Tap easter egg in Princess Bride DORAL USS OV-18 CRACKED.COM The hat Rob Reiner wore in Spinal Tap is hanging on the wall of The Grandson's room — EW

25

The Infinity Gauntlet

THOR BTS FACTS AND EASTER EGGS THOR ODIN HAS AN INFINITY GAUNTLET AMONG HIS TREASURES. It was a nice Easter egg, until we saw Thanos wearing the Gauntlet in the post-credits scene of Avengers: Age of Ultron. To fix this, Hela exposed Odin's Gauntlet as a fake. THOR: RAGNAROK CRACKED.COM — Source: /Film

24

South Park

EASTER EGGSTRA Overwatch South Park The easter egg. HALLOWEEN OUTLET In 22's The season Problem with a Poo, the Halloween Outlet features costumes for classic poP culture characters like Darth Vader and Pinhead. Also featured is the masks of two Overwatch characters, Tracer and Reaper. CRACKED.COM — Source

23

She’s All That

'90s Teen Rom-Coms She's All That The movie has an Animal House Easter egg. Tim Matheson plays a doctor who moved to California after attending Dartmouth. In Animal House, itself inspired by Dartmouth debauchery, his character is said to move to California to become a doctor. CRACKED.COM — Source: IMDb

22

Watchmen

In the Watchmen TV show, a book on the sheriff's desk is a big Easter egg. UNDER THE HOOD He's reading Under the Hood-that's Nite Owl's autobiography, bits of which show up at the end of the original comic book's chapters. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Comic Book Movies With Sneaky Shout-Outs To Their Source Material

21

Halloweentown

HALLOWEENTOWN AND THE EASTER EGG EVERYONE MISSED Kimberly J. Brown who played Marnie recently revealed that everyone seemed to miss drawings of her character from the Halloweentown book that was hung as posters in Marnie's room. CRACKED.COM — Source: Screen Rant

20

Tron

In Tron (1982), there's a silhouette of Mickey Mouse hiding in plain sight. Do you see it? CRACKED COM — Source

19

Eternals

ETERNALS The MCU film has a 2001: A Space Odyssey Easter egg. When the Domo makes its appearance at the beginning of the movie, it's at such an angle that its nose resembles The Monolith in Kubrick S movie. CRACKED.COM — Source

18

The Harder They Fall

The Harder They Fall has a Chadwick Boseman Easter egg. A train was given the name in honor of the late icon. — Netflix Twitter

17

Cowboy Bebop

The show's props and weapons master Nick Komornicki revealed that Han Solo's blaster is hiding somewhere on the Bebop. Fans are trying hard to spot the Star Wars Easter egg. — Source: CBR

16

The First Easter Egg

ADVENTURE The first Easter egg was created by a disgruntled + Atari employee. ADVENTURE معر VIDEO COMPUTER SYSTEM GAME PROGRAM 3 GAMES VIDEO THREE SKOD LEVELS ONE PLAYER SALE 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: 21 Games We Grew Up On (With Weird Backstories)

15

Nightmare Alley

Guillermo del Toro included a Mimic Easter egg in his new film by adding the same neon sign that says Jesus Saves. — Source

14

Dune

Easter Eggs Dune Each character and group has their own sound, which struggle and fight each other as they play. Each sound is its own Easter egg, as they merge and meld together. CRACKED.COM — Source

13

Oscar the Grouch

THE SESAME STREET EASTER EGG IN HALO INFINITE CRACKED.COM nen OSCAR'S HOUSE The urban-themed map has an alleyway featuring two dumpsters with one tagged as Oscar's House. It's the only trash can with that tag, and it of course refers to Oscar the Grouch. — Source: GameSpot

12

Aladdin

THE HIDDEN BEAUTY AND THE BEAST EASTER EGG IN ALADDIN. CRACKED.COM In a classic blink-and-youill-miss-it moment where the Sultan is building his stack of animal toys, the camera pans out and a Beast toy can be seen poking out from the left side of the toy tower. — Source: Looper

11

Mario

A new Mario Easter egg in a Sega game has been found. CRACKED.COM It took 26 years for a player to spot Mario sitting in one of the files of the game Astal released in 1995. — Source: SVG

10

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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Man of Steel

8

Parasite

EASTER EGGSTRA Parasite There might be a Snowpiercer Easter egg in the movie. When Kim Ki-woo first arrives at the Park house to be the family's new tutor, the housekeepert tells him that the house was built by famed Korean architect Namgoong. It's a fictional character, but a character who shares the name of one of the train's designers in Snowpiercer, Bong Joon-ho's other big movie. Song Kang-ho, who plays Mr. Kim, played Namgoong in Snowpiercer. CRACKED.COM — Source: 16 Easter Eggs and Hidden Meanings in Bong Joon-ho's “Parasite”

7

Cars

There's a subtle Cars Easter egg that references Ferrari's factory in Italy. 44.5-10.8 Luigi's license plate isn't a random string of the numbers- it says 445-108, and those are the geographic coordinates of that factory. CRACKED.COM — Source: Disney.com

6

Loki

LOKI 1282 MARVEL COMICS GROUP HAS AN THOR THE EASTER EGG TEMPUS TO A THOR COMIC BOOK When Loki looks out the window at the TVA, there's a tower bearing the number T-282. It's a reference to Thor #282 that features the first appearance of the Time Keepers. CRACKED.COM — Sources: Marvel, Game Rant

5

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

4

Futurama

A FUTURAMA EASTER EGG ROASTS YOU FOR BEING SUCH A NERD. Fans started right away to decipher signs in alien languages. So one of the DVDs includes an alien message which, when decoded, tells you that “you have no life and are a compulsive nerdlinger.” — Sources: Appalachian State University, The Infosphere

3

Independence Day

Movies With Sneaky Shout-Outs To Other Movies - Jasmine's kid's toys in Independence Day are actually an Easter egg. Her son plays with Godzilla toys, a ref3erence to Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich's 1998 Godzilla movie (Independance Day came out in 1996, but they'd already made the deal Godzilla by then). — Source: Film School Rejects

2

Grand Theft Auto

17:12 516450240 In GTA Vice City, there 200 200 is a literal easter egg. caster N Downtown CRACKED.COM — Source

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Elden Ring

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 — Source: Game Rant

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