31 Expertly Hidden Jokes and References Camouflaged Deep Within Your Favorite TV Shows and Movies

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31 Expertly Hidden Jokes and References Camouflaged Deep Within Your Favorite TV Shows and Movies

Sometimes we don’t even know our own strength. Don’t get us wrong, we knew we were good at finding hidden jokes and references in movies and TV shows, but watching lesser hunters fail made us realize just how prolific we are. 

We’re pretty brutal in the modesty game, but we’ve got the Easter egg game on lock! And as you’ll see, that game is just way more fun.

King Kong

In the 2005 King Kong remake, Carl Denham suggests hiring an actress named Fay, only to be told that she's doing a picture with RKO. KING KONG Fay Wray starred in King Kong (1933) for RKO. KING KONG RUBERT AENTERONG FAT WELT va ANICE САВОГ CRACKED.COM

Master and Commander

In Master and Commander, Jack Aubrey says he met Lord Nelson and describes him as a man of singular vision. Nelson could only see with one eye. CRACKED.COM

Us

Us In the opening scene set in 1986 Santa Cruz, Adelaide's mom tells her that some people are filming something by the carousel. HOT DOG K That film they're shooting? The Lost Boys, which began filming in Santa Cruz, 1986, and released a year later. CRACKED.COM

Supernatural

In Supernatural's Hollywood Babylon (S2E18), a tour guide announces that they have reached the set of Gilmore Girls and comments that if they're lucky, they might catch one of the show's stars. This seems to get a reaction out of Sam Winchester. That's because the character's actor, Jared Padalecki, quit Gilmore Girls in order to secure a role in Desert I DRAN Supernatural. DOOSE'S MARKET CRACKED.COM

Rocko’s Modern Life

In the Rocko's Modern Life episode Wacky Delly, when the gang can't get film out of a camera in a dark room, Heffer suggests they turn on the lights. ANIMATION CAMERA ROOM KNOCK BE FORE ENTE RING NICKTOONS Filburt says, That'll expose the film, Eisenstein! That's not a flubbing of Einstein. Не meant Sergei Eisenstein, the early-20th-century film director who invented a bunch of modern editing techniques. CRACKED.COM

Iron Man

At the start of Iron Man, a reporter says Tony Stark's nickname is merchant of death. Merchant of death is what the inventor of dynamite, Alfred Nobel, was called in an obituary accidentally published before his death. That obituary made him rethink his career and work on his legacy (which was why he founded the Nobel Prize). So that one line foreshadows Tony Stark's whole character arc. CRACKED.COM

Darkwing Duck

In Darkwing Duck, the hero proclaims, It's like the chicken says, Launchpad. I knew the job was dangerous when I took it. He's referring to fellow feathered avenger Super Chicken, who 7 would tell his sidekick, You knew the job was dangerous when you took it, Fred! CRACKED COM

Men

MEN Right before Don punches him, insult comedian Jimmy Barrett says: CRACKED COM IF iT iSN'T THE MAN IN THE GREY FLANNEL SUiT. BARRILL ZANDOK - GREGORY JENNIFER FREDRIC PECK-JONES MARCH This is a reference to the 1956 movie of the same 20m The name which tells the Man in the story of a war vet who Gray lives in Connecticut Flannel Suit - with his wife and three COLOR CK CINEMASCOPE 10. PAVAN - C088 e HARDING EN WTN MUTUAL kids while being disillusioned SARY TERO EMU CHICK by his suburban and corporate lifestyle (all of which is an

The Matrix

When Neo asks to be removed from the Matrix by saying, Mr. Wizard, get me the hell out of here, he's referencing a '60s cartoon called TOOTER TURTLE. THE MATRIX In every episode of the cartoon, Tooter (the turtle) would ask his lizard friend, Mr. Wizard, to send him to a different dimension or time period, and then he'd yell for Mr. Wizard to get him out when things got dicey. CRACKED.COM

The Nice Guys

At the end of The Nice Guys, the two leads toast, To the birds! It's a joke about part of the plot, and also a play on the actors' last names, Crowe and Gosling. CRACKED COM

Get Out

CRACKED COM In Get Out there's an announcement for Flight 237 which is a reference to the creepy room that's numbered 237 from The Shining. 237

Rick and Morty

In Rick and Morty S1E06, when Beth shoots a bunch of Cronenberg monsters with a shotgun, her husband Jerry says he wishes the shotgun was his penis. She says, If it were, you could call me Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway killed himself by putting a shotgun barrel in his mouth. CRACKED.COM

On Stranger Tides

I am the master of my fate, says Barbossa in On Stranger Tides, when he's telling the tale of how he lost his leg. That's a line from Robert Henley's poem Invictus, and Henley - who had a wooden leg, and was a larger-than-life kind of guy -was the inspiration for the archetypal pop-culture pirate Long John Silver in Treasure Island. CRACKED.COM

Community

CRACKED COM community In Season One's Comparative Religion, Pierce says that Anthony Michael Hall's character, school bully Mike Chilada, used to be a nerd, now he's a meat head, which is likely referring to Hall's frequent roles as a nerd in 1980s movies like The Breakfast Club.

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31 Expertly Hidden Jokes and References Camouflaged Deep Within Your Favorite TV Shows and Movies

The Winter Soldier

31 Expertly Hidden Jokes and References Camouflaged Deep Within Your Favorite TV Shows and Movies

Digimon

IN DIGIMON, VAMDEMON/MYOTISMONOPENS A PORTAL FROM THE DIGITAL WORLD TO THE REAL WORLD WITH THE INCANTATION TLON UQBAR, ORBIS, TERTIUS... This is a reference to the Jorge Luis Borges story of the same name, in which ideas become reality. CRACKED.COM

Tomorrowland

The composer of Tomorrowland's score is operating the It's a Small World ride during the 1964 World's Fair scene. Most people who visit the famous attraction end up leaving with a headache after hearing the same lyrics ad nauseam, but Michael Giacchino isn't one of them. In fact, he's a fan and friend of the song's creator, Richard Sherman, and his cameo is a way to show appreciation for the songwriter he ires. CRACKED.COM

Sin City

31 Expertly Hidden Jokes and References Camouflaged Deep Within Your Favorite TV Shows and Movies

Goosebumps

31 Expertly Hidden Jokes and References Camouflaged Deep Within Your Favorite TV Shows and Movies

Independence Day

31 Expertly Hidden Jokes and References Camouflaged Deep Within Your Favorite TV Shows and Movies

Wes Craven

Wes Craven references his other popular franchise in Scream. The horror director briefly appears in his own movie as the high school janitor wearing Freddy Krueger's iconic hat and sweater from the A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise. The principal even calls him Fred before he gets stabbed by Ghostface. CRACKED.COM

Who Framed Roger Rabbit

EASTER EGGSTRA REFERENCES & HIDDEN MEANINGS fromed ROGER Who RABBIT The Betty Boop doll 13 THEODORE J. VALIANIS In the Valiant & Valiant scene, Eddie is alone in the office and on his brother Teddy's desk is a Betty Boop doll. Betty Boop, who has a cameo in the movie, seems familiar with Eddie at the club, hinting that she might've been an old client and gave Teddy her merch doll. That, or Teddy was just the biggest fan. CRACKED.COM

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