40 Camouflaged TV and Movie Jokes and References You Couldn’t Have Picked Out in One Million Lifetimes Without Our Help

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40 Camouflaged TV and Movie Jokes and References You Couldn’t Have Picked Out in One Million Lifetimes Without Our Help

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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

Old School

BRAD PITT EDWIRD NORTON I FUNCHER FiLM MIS CHI AVHT M SOAP CITA en ALE KOR a - PA DE REE - - ла US NG SHIME ... TOTAL 10 - CENTE - C KA amount Old School is just a comedy take on Fight Club. Writer and director Todd Phillips says he was thinking of Fight Club throughout writing the whole screenplay, and it shows: a ton of scenes are ripped straight from Fight Club with a minor twist or two. 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

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

Sonic the Hedgehog

Sonic the Hedgehog has a shout-out to Apocalypse Now. It's when Dr. Robotnik uses a piece of metal to shave his head -- that's a nod to Colonel Kurtz. CRACKED.COM

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A Nightmare on Elm Street

Scary Movies Based on A weird series of sleeping deaths involving Asian men in the early '80s A Nightmare on Elm Street Freddy Krueger's name is actually a nod to writer/director Wes Craven's childhood bully, Fred Krueger. CRACKED.COM

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Aaron Sorkin

THE AARON SORKIN RUNNING JOKE IN THE TRIAL OF CHICAGO 7. First used in The West Wing and now in the 2020 film, Sorkin's joke goes like this: Why do they only eat one egg for breakfast in France? Because in France, one egg is un oeuf. (Un oeuf means one egg, and it kind of sounds like enough.) - - CRACKED.COM

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.

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Thor: The Dark World

In Thor: The Dark World, a simple Loki gesture is actually a Steve McQueen homage. When Loki lies on his bunk and tosses his cup in the air, then catches it, that's a reference to Steve McQueen's character doing the same thing with a baseball in solitary confinement in The

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse pays homage to Steve Ditko. There's a contact on Miles' phone that's labeled S. Ditko, which is pretty clearly an homage to the Spider-Man co-creator. CRACKED.COM

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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

The Iron Giant

The tentacles on The Iron Giant's back were an old-school movie reference. They were Brad Bird's way of paying homage to the 1953 The War of the Worlds movie. CRACKED COM

Fate of the Furious

The Fate of the Furious director F. Gary Gray put in an homage to his first film, Friday. It's when Tej says Hey Miss Parker, and it's kind of his substitute for a director cameo (which he doesn't like to do, because he's a terrible actor, he says) - in Friday,

Kong: Skull Island

Athena in Kong: Skull Island has an homage to Alien. A C NTHENN 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

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Slowen Lo, the Last Jedi alien who reports Rose and Finn, is voiced by Joseph Gordon-Levitt. The character is the same species as The Force Awakens' Ello Asty (a reference to the Beastie Boys' album Hello Nasty), and Slowen Lo is another Beastie Boys reference - to their song Slow and Low. Rian Johnson apparently just decided to turn J.J. Abrams' one-off Easter egg into a running gag. CRACKED.COM

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