41 Hidden Jokes and References We Found By Scrubbing Through Every Frame of Your Favorite Movies and TV Shows

It took a while, but we finally found them!
41 Hidden Jokes and References We Found By Scrubbing Through Every Frame of Your Favorite Movies and TV Shows

Well, our eyes are burning but here they are! When the Cracked higher-ups tasked us with tracking down hidden jokes, references and the cute little nods from one filmmaker to another, we couldn’t have been more thrilled — until we realized how much we’d miss blinking. 

Finding these was a satisfying victory, and now that we’re done, blinking again feels like a satisfying reward. Moisture on our eyeballs is oh so nice.

The Goonies

EASTER EGGS IN '80S MOVIES The Goonies DO GREMLINS EXIST IN THE GOONIES UNIVERSE? The cop dismisses Chunk's call with, Just like that last prank about all those little creatures that multiply when you throw water on them? Both movies were written by Chris Columbus. CRACKED.COM

The Grinch

The Whos in THE GRINCH are SWINGERS! The annual Whoville Christmas party is actually a KEY PARTY, a popular game played by wife swappers. GRAGKED.OOH

The Good Place

EASTER EGGSTRA MEANINGS AND REFERENCES Trevor, forever flying through the void In season three, Maya Rudolph's character The Judge sends Adam Scott's demon character Trevor flying off the walkway into the void of the afterlife. Every time after, when someone walks over the bridge in the afterlife system, you can spot Trevor in the background flying backwards. The Good Place GRACKED COM

Gravity Falls

EASTER EGGSTRA JOKES AND HIDDEN JOKES, MEANINGS GRAVITY HIDDEN JOKES FALLS EVERYWHERE HACK Thomas Jefferson was actually just two kids in an overcoat standing on each other's shoulders The current and forever President of the United States is actually Santa Claus.Under the reign of Mr. Claus, America is not a democracy. but a jollyocracy. The statues in Mount Rushmore are actually gipantic presidential-faced robots that will be called into action when America needs them the most. An enormous, evil, time-devouring baby from another dimension is frozen in an Antarctic glacier. Fortu- nately glaciers never melt, so me should be five Writ-

Moon Knight

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

King Kong

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

The Lego Movie

Easter Eggs for Polyglots The Lego Movie octopus Tuesday! Lord Business' Taco Tuesday is about the octopus-like TAKOS machine - and as it turns out, tako is Japanese for octopus. CRACKED.COM

My Little Pony

Rick and Morty Easter Eggs MLPGrannies Gone wild Rick and Morty crossed over to My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. MLP fans were treated to two ponies that distinctly have Rick and Morty's hair and color scheme waiting in line for a roller coaster. CRACKED.COM

South Park

EASTER EGGSTRA South Park Homage to A Clockwork Orange. In season 14's Coon 2: Hindsight, the scene where Cartman (as The Coon) beats up his friends is a direct take on Alex turning on his droogs in A Clockwork Orange. CRACKED.COM

Beetlejuice

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.

David Rose

EASTER EGGSTRA REFERENCES & HIDDEN MEANINGS CRACKED.COM SCHITT'S CREEK David's flaming sweatshirts. Throughout the show, David periodically wears a shirt with a flame motif on it. It represents his relationship with Patrick. The first time we see him wear a shirt covered in flames is during the Open Mic episode where Patrick sings, Simply The Best. The opening lyrics being: I call you when I need you, my heart's on fire.

Schitt’s Creek

EASTER EGGSTRA REFERENCES & HIDDEN MEANINGS CRACKED.COM SCHITT'S CREEK All the books are fake. Not only are the books fake, but they're a running gag because the titles of the books either represent a plot point, or a character trait. For instance, in the Open Mic episode, Moira reads A Hint of Amnesia. In that episode, she immediately forgets the sex of Roland and Jocelyn's baby after learning about it. HINT

The Vast of Night

THE VAST OF NIGHT The film's San Mirial Valley is named after Santa Mira in Invasion of the Body Snatchers. CRACKED.COM

Joker

JOKER There's a painting in Arthur Fleck's living room that also appeared in Batman (1989). CRACKED.COM

Hawkeye

HAWKEYE The car chase in episode 3 is a tribute to Hawkeye #3, with the tracking shot scene taken from the issue. --and now that it did, I dunno what to do-- --too many cars-- --too many cars-- --too many people-- --too many people-- 01 --too many cars-- GRACKED.COM

Watchmen

EXPRESS a NY NO are CRACKED.COM WATCHMEN Moore and Gibson always returned to the image of the newsstand in their comic, and the show pays tribute to it (image used is from episode 2). Mister NEWS TULSA EM BESTREET mg/2 DO

She-Hulk

SHE-HULK'S TEASER FEATURES A REFERENCE TO THE INCREDIBLE HULK TV SHOW The teaser features the same line said by Bill Bixby's Banner in the show (Don't make me angry. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry), and Mark Ruffalo's Banner even wears the same style of clothes. CRACKED.COM

Dead Silence

L DEAD SILENCE Billy the Puppet from Saw, James Wan other movie that involves a doll and some murder, can be spotted in Wan's 2007 movie too. Billy makes an appearance in most of Wan's movies. CRACKED.COM

The Queen’s Gambit

The pretty big homage to a French artist in THe Queen's GAMBIT When Harmon is adopted and walks into her new home for the first time, Alma (her adopted mother) shows her some Rosa Bonheur prints on the walls. A lot of the French artist's life and struggles show up in the series. Bonheur's mother, for instance, had to raise her alone thanks to an absent dad. Her mother gave piano lessons to make money, and died when Bonheur was still young. CRACKED.COM

The Incredibles

THe InCREDIBLES The movie pays homage to Die Hard with a Vengeance during the scene where Frozone (Samuel L. Jackson) is being held at gunpoint by a policeman. CRACKED.COM

Money Heist

MONEY HEIST In the hotel bar scene where Berlin confronts his son, a musician is singing Can't Take My Eyes Off You. The singer is Cecilia Krull. She also sings the show's theme song, My Life Is Going On and the guy accompanying her on piano in the scene is Manel Santisteban, the guy who composed the show's theme song. CRACKED.COM

Resident Evil

RESIDENT EVIL: WELCOME TO RACCOON CITY CRACKED.COM In one scene, a woman writes itchy tasty in blood on a windowpane. The phrase comes from the 1996 video game, found in the diary of a Keeper whose mind had deteriorated from the T-virus. 4/1 Itchy Tasty. Exit Keeper'e mary MAY Marito CUDA

Blade Runner

EASTER EGGS IN '80S MOVIES Blade Runner PAN A BUILDING IS THE MILLENNIUM FALCON. You can see what looks like Han Solo's ship raised up on its side as one of the buildings in the bustling metropolis. CRACKED.COM

RoboCop

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. 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 UNDER

Supernatural

Easter Eggs Supernatural Show creator Eric Kripke had Castiel wear John Constantine's clothes, as a homage to DC's supernatural hunter. GRACKED COM

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

EASTER EGGS IN '80S MOVIES Close Encounters of the Third Kind R2-D2 IS ON THE ALIEN SHIP. Considering the construction materials, that ship took a long time coming from a galaxy far, far away. CRACKED.COM

Batman

EASTER EGGS IN '80S MOVIES HAVE you SKEN THIS iNPH Batman (1989) A SKETCH ARTIST IS BATMAN'S CO-CREATOR. As Knox walks through the bullpen of the newspaper, he's handed a sketch by Bob Kane. No word on whether it was actually drawn by Kane, or if he just took credit for it like he used to do. CRACKED.COM

Tron

EASTER EGGS IN '80S MOVIES Tron PAC-MAN IS JUST HANGING THERE. In a close-up on a screen filled with circuits, we can see the dot-munching Pac-Man munch on some dots, doing his thing. CRACKED.COM

Temple of Doom

EASTER EGGS IN '80S MOVIES Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom INDY ESCAPES THE OBI WAN. The club owned by Lao Che was named after the famous Jedi Knight in the Star Wars franchise. ب CLUIB DIBI WAIN es CRACKED.COM

Spider-Man: No Way Home

SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME EASTER EGGS SINISTER SIX While the film never has a sixth villain, it does have oblique references to Ultimate Six, a comic in which the Sinister Six force Spider-Man to serve them... making him the actual sixth member. CRACKED.COM

Spider-Man

SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME EASTER EGGS DITKO WAS HERE Throughout the film, graffiti appears from a tagger using the name DITKO - aka Steve Ditko, co-creator of Spider-Man and most of the Sinister... Five? Sinister... Bro-Up? Does the group ever get a name? THINK CRACKED.COM

Minions

41 Hidden Jokes and References We Found By Scrubbing Through Every Frame of Your Favorite Movies and TV Shows

Transformers

41 Hidden Jokes and References We Found By Scrubbing Through Every Frame of Your Favorite Movies and TV Shows

Toy Story

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

Rugrats

Rugrats spoofed a highly sexualized psychological thriller. CRACKED COM In Season 3, Episode 25, Cradle Attraction, a new girl stalks Chuckie in the same manner as Alex (Glenn Close) with Dan (Michael Douglas) in Fatal Attraction. They even replicate a shot from the film.

SpongeBob

Bikini Bottom's Krusty Krab. SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS CRACKED.COM SpongeBob creators conveniently named the restaurant The Krusty Krab, which is located in Bikini Bottom. So... There are crabs, and crust, in your bikini. Got it.

iCarly

iCarly referenced that BDSM movie. a Nifty Stade Shades of king of Beige CRACKED.COM NUTS A Season 5 episode shows Guppy (an 8 year old boy) staring wide eyed at the novel, Nifty Shades of Beige - a direct spoof of the BDSM laden Fifty Shades of Grey.

Avatar

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS SHAOLIN SOCCER WAS AN INFLUENCE ON AVATAR. According to co-creator Bryan Konietzko, the show drew inspiration from Hong Kong movies combining martial arts and mystical powers - or in his own words, films like Shaolin Soccer. CRACKED.COM

Superbad

BEHINO-THE-SCENES SUPERBAD FACTS Seth Rogen's real pop played the MAD DAD CRACKED.COM In his first- and last-ever screen role, Seth Rogen's father played the baseball-bat-wielding dad who chases Seth and Evan through the suburban backyard. Nice throw, Mark Rogen.

Baby’s Wardrobe

EASTER EGGSTRA REFERENCES & HIDDEN MEANINGS BABY DRIVER BABY'S WARDROBE Wright explained that Baby's two-toned wardrobe represents his moral ambiguity because it's hard to tell whether he's good or bad. His shirts also get progressively grayer as the story develops. CRACKED.COM

Baby Driver

EASTER EGGSTRA REFERENCES & HIDDEN MEANINGS BABY DRIVER THE STUNTMAN السعودية HOMAGE ON Jon Hamm's character is nicknamed 'Buddy.' It was Edgar Wright's tribute to Clint Eastwood's longtime stunt double and stunt coordinator, Buddy Van Horn. CRACKED.COM

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