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January 28, 2025

Growing up, our moms would always say, “You can’t have your ice cream if you don’t finish your vegetables.” We were reminded of that old threat while hunting for hidden jokes and references in our favorite movies and TV shows. Yes, we had to painstakingly scrub through a ton of footage for these, but our “ice cream” was a sweet laugh or reference that we didn’t get the first time around.

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Love and Monsters

THE LAST OF US HOMAGES IN LOVE AND MONSTERS The director said that the game inspired him quite a bit, so not only did he name the protagonist Joel (same as the protagonist's name in the game), but Joel also wears the same kind of sunset t-shirt as Ellie. CRACKED.COM

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A Scanner Darkly

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Broad City

BROAD CITY The Mrs. Doubtfire reference goes deeper. Mara Wilson made a rare cameo as the waitress in this Mrs. Doubtfire homage. CRACKED.COM

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Crazy Rich Asians

CRACKED.COM CRAZY RICH ASIANS The Mahjong scene is a nod to The Joy Luck Club. The encounter doesn't happen in the book, but the director wanted to pay homage to another Hollywood film that featured an all-Asian cast. — Source

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The Invisible Man

The Invisible Man has a Saw reference. Leigh Whannell, writer of Saw and director of The Invisible Man, really likes adding Billy the Puppet in the mo

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South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut

CRACKED EMERGENCY Schedule Doctor isembowel Kenny Chumsky actice got swing Petracco All Employe Colon surgery Varma must wash Rectal surgery Turdiman KB Bond No before surg SOUTH PARK GIVES A NOD TO A CLASSIC BOND VILLAIN. In South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut, when Kenny is rushed to the hospital, there's a board with the doctors' schedules on it. At the bottom, Dr. No's schedule is to kill Bond. — Source

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Infinity War

AVENGERS WAR CRACKED.COM INFINITY MARVEL STUDIOS That blue guy chilling in The Collector's display case? Don't mind him. That's just Tobias Fünke from Arrested Development.

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Psycho

EASTER EGGSTRA HIDDEN MEANINGS & REFERENCES ONCE UPON A TIME IN... HOLLYWOOD THE SPAHN RANCH SCENE: HOMAGE TO PSYCHO PRIVATE In Psycho, Lila Crane searches for her (murdered) sister in the old house where the dead and eyeless Mrs. Bates is found. In Tarantino's movie, Cliff is looking for his old colleague George, who is supposedly blind and looks like a skeleton, while the same kind of riff like that in Psycho plays over the scene. CRACKED.COM — IndieWire

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Carrie

Movie Scenes With Hidden Homages To Other Movies - The shot of the hand rising from the grave in 1976's Carrie is an homage to the hand — Source: Film School Rejects

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Ant-Man (Again)

EASTER EGGSTRA MEANINGS AND REFERENCES ANT-MAN THE MILGROM HOTEL The Milgrom HOTEL 420 The fictional hotel Where Scott stays after getting out of prison in Ant-Man is a nod to Marvel artist and writer AI Milgrom. CRACKED.COM — Source

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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 — Source

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Gravity Falls

EASTER EGGSTRA JOKES AND MEANINGS A WINK TO GRAYITY FALLS MARIO BROS. LACK IT'S IM IM POSSIBLE ? NO REFUNE HLIIB, WRKKVI, YFG BLFI DVMWB RH RM ZMLGSVI XZHGOV. In one of the episodes that uses the Atbash cipher at the end, decoding it reads: Sorry, Dipper, but your Wendy is in another castle. CRACKED.COM — Source: WhatCulture

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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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Into the Spider-Verse

SPIDERMAD EASTER EGGSTRA! INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE Homage to comics: Ben-Day dots go meta. Ben-Day dots were used to create different colors on the pages of older comics. The dots are used for texture in the movie, and during the big battle scene in the end, Spider-Man and Kingpin are literally — The Hollywood Reporter

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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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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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Psycho

CRACKED T S E JA39 Rautic 0312839699 МОЗИ GUS VAN SANT GAVE HITCHCOCK A POST-MORTEM CAMEO. Hitchcock famously had cameos in 39 of his 52 films. In Van Sant's '90s Psycho remake, he pays homage to the late director by having a Hitchcock look-alike in a scene with the real-life cameo of Van Sant himself. — Source

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Star Wars

Star Wars has a nod to The Hidden Fortress hidden in plain sight. Before Vader chokes him, Admiral Motti says Your sad devotion to that ancient religion has not ... given you clairvoyance enough to find the Rebel's hidden fortr- CRACKED.COM — Source: Slate

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Community

EASTER EGGSTRA REFERENCES & HIDDEN MEANINGS SAY BEETLEJUICE THREE TIMES community It's many people's favorite Easter egg in the show. In season 3's Halloween episode, Horror Fiction in Seven Spooky Steps, Annie says Beetlejuice while going through Britta's playlist. It's the third time the name has been said throughout the show, and someone dressed as Beetlejuice can be seen strolling by the study room. CRACKED.COM — Screen Rant

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Billie Eilish

THE ORIGINAL BOND SONG EASTER EGG IN BILLIE EILISH'S BOND SONG THE 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 — Source: Digital Spy

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Air Bud

EASTER EGGSTRA JOKES AND MEANINGS GRAVITY AIR BUD FALLS ritual unrational LAWER impres the that of rinar a dog and changing baskethalt water 3 kid fiverite. where last game! rejaiced! Then the ritual to Another text supposedly talking about the Aztecs actually rewrites the plot of Air Bud to describe an Aztec ritual. CRACKED.COM — Source: Twitter

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The Dark Knight

Movie Scenes With Hidden Homages To Other Movies - The Joker's clown mask in the opening of The Dark Knight is a homage to the 1960s — Source: 6 Mind-Blowing Easter Eggs Hidden in Famous Movie Costumes

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Donnie Darko

EASTER EGGSTRA REFERENCES AND MEANINGS DOnnie Darko Comic books inspiration Director Richard Kelly said in the commentary that much of the way they filmed the movie was inspired by comics, as was the intention beams that flowed out from characters' chests. CRACKED.COM — Source: DVD Commentary

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Joey

FRIENDS Joey's doodle board follows him to Joey. FINIS 32044 Love you MAN The board itself is used for all kinds of Easter eggs and plot hints. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Cheers

EASTER EGGSTRA MEANINGS AND REFERENCES Cheers In the season two finale, Michael sneaks down to Earth and poses as a bartender. The Good Place CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Good Place

EASTER EGGSTRA MEANINGS AND REFERENCES The magic panda In season two it's revealed that one of Jason's ideas to thwart Michael's plan is to catch the magic panda, use her powers. What initially sounded like just another whimsical thing Jason would say soon turned into a running gag, with a panda teleporting in the background of frames all over the place. The Good Place CRACKED.COM

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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

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Us

Us There's an easter egg of The Shining hidden in the credits. Jack Nicholson's grandson, Duke Nicholson, has a role in the film as Danny. In the credits, where a lot of actors have dual character names attached to them, Nicholson's character reads Danny/Tony. CRACKED.COM — Source: 14 Easter Eggs And Hidden Meanings In Jordan Peele’s ‘Us’

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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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Batman

EASTER EGGSTRA I BATMAN: THE ANIMATED SERIES VERTIGO IN THE EPISODE OFF BALANCE THERE'S NOT ONLY A COUNT VERTIGO CHARACTER, BUT ALSO A DUPLICATION OF THE HITCHCOCK MOVIE'S FINAL SCENE IN THE BELL TOWER. CRACKED.COM — Whatculture Comics

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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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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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Kong: Skull Island

Athena in Kong: Skull Island has an homage to Alien. ٨ I I С V ATHENA Director Jordan Vogt-Roberts deliberately made the lettering on the ship reminiscent of Alien, to make the ship his dumb, unnecessary nod to that movie. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Scream

THE 2022 SCREAM FILM'S NEWLY RELEASED IMAGE HAS AN HOMAGE TO WES CRAVEN. Fans spotted Wes Craven's white fedora hat hanging in the corner. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Schitt’s Creek

EASTER EGGSTRA REFERENCES & HIDDEN MEANINGS CRACKED.COM SCHITT'S CREEK The Birth of Venus Moira's long locks during the wedding is an homage to Botticelli's Italian Renaissance masterpiece. The idea came about when Catherine O'Hara suggested Moira be dressed like the Pope. — E! Online

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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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Roger Rabbit

EASTER EGGSTRA REFERENCES & HIDDEN MEANINGS Who fromed ROGER RABBIT The secret references of one Roger Rabbit The cartoon character was actually created using references of famous cartoons: His face resembles a Looney Tunes character, and his torso a Disney character. His dungaree is a homage to Gooty, he wears Mickey Mouse gloves and a bow tie like that of Porky Pig. CRACKED.COM — Mental Floss

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Die Hard

Movie Scenes With Hidden Homages To Other Movies - Die Hard made a nod to a 1920 German silent horror film. — Source: Film School Rejects, Nevada Film Office

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Serenity

Serenity mocks itself. The chant used to turn off River is a Russian idiom meaning this is ridiculous. CRACKED cOR

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